The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. – Eric Tucker, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (New York). – Matt Miller, Lakota Local Schools. “If

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 16, 2023

Last week, Jon wrote about Graham Delano , an awesome young teacher at Nashville Classical Charter School. I’ve begun to wonder if the way we teach history, or at least the way I do, trains students the wrong way. We’d done traditional outline notes on similar readings, and have storyboarded plenty.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Nationally, controversy over opening a charter school is nothing new. You know how Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S We say, ‘Of course!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

If one looks and listens closely, black reform advocates and charter leaders are responding to the mythology that black people don’t want charter schools or reform in general. We are never surprised and are always encouraged by black educators who make systems work—including those in charters. The report found: “A new $2.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize. Two months later, she left New Orleans for Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Foxworth-Carter’s ties to Carver reflect a strong high-school alumni tradition in New Orleans that was basically put on hiatus for nearly a decade as the city went through high-profile school reforms. It is the school pride,” he said. But it’s also the deep history. But we’re remaking it.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

The burdens that come with being retained are borne primarily by those students whom already are traditionally-disadvantaged by existing schooling practices. Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history. Thinking about charter schools. Related Posts. Questions for student retention advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

After two girls with an explosive history had exchanged barbs, one dared the other to meet the next day near a statue that stands about a block from the Batiste house, according to multiple sources. In New Orleans, the city’s Health Department is trying to revive a program that first brought restorative justice into the public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

But critics complained that the ambitious plan shortchanged more traditional forms of scholarship and caused the university to fall in national rankings. Many of their neighbors already mistrust them after histories of unbridled expansion and heavy-handed treatment such as the kind that occurred in West Philadelphia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. There are no rivalries within the district and no real concept of socioeconomic status,” Osborn said. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

An Idaho nonprofit group identified Twin Falls — where student enrollment is projected to rise by an additional 17 percent through the end of this decade — as a potential growth market for new charter schools. Cedar, sixth grader, Bozeman Online Charter School. You go through the hallways and can’t get anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2019

In 2011, he became the first black economist to earn tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and as of May 2019, at age 46, he’s a full professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley. Do you think schools that educate low-income blacks separately are harmful? There are other great charter schools like it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Related: Hidden expulsions?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. I spent this entire year in a constant state of I-don’t-knows.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Last year, she published an extensively researched book about the school choice movement called The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ). There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Districts and charter schools periodically collect and report suspension and expulsion data to the U.S. Department of Education as part of the Civil Rights Data Collection , a federal effort to ensure the country’s public schools do not discriminate against protected classes of students. Read the series.

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