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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Charter School K-12 Middle School High School 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Pam Strobel, behavior interventionist, Lake Charles College Prep (LCCP) charter school. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said. Mold started to grow on the walls, and then the second storm let more water in.

Charter School 139

Charter School Psychology Middle School High School 139

Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius. I had a few interviews that summer – and one charter school even offered me a job without interviewing me! I was going to be the founding history teacher at a little school in Metro Detroit!

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Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning 52

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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High School Education Government Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. That means they’re not “reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Maya Angelou,” taking algebra or learning world history, said Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation.

Middle School 143

Middle School High School Elementary School History 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Then there was the curriculum. Parents, teachers, and students united in public backlash.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143