ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. While I still have a caseload of students who I meet with regularly, my job description explicitly states that I am the mental health provider for the staff at our school.

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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. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Mississippi policymakers have welcomed charter schools as a promising solution to low test scores and persistent achievement gaps. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the question before the state’s authorizer board as Mississippi decides whether its first two charter schools can stay open. Proof Points.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Best Practices Sometimes, best practices are seen as the golden standard—that thing that will “save” the urban school from low performance, perpetuating the notion that best can only look and sound one way.we In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. Although the setting is the 1930s Jim Crow South, many students were able to make a connection to this human experience.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. But you got a whole bunch of direct instruction schools.”.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. Last year, I had meetings with all of the health and human services representatives to find out what their issues are,” she said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I know the gravity of what it means to leave all too well. Teachers are leaving and the pipelines ushering in fresh talent are eroding.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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JANUARY 11, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Related: Online prekindergarten access and funds for school counselors among bills proposed in Mississippi this year. ReImagine Prep has a B-rating, while Midtown Public Charter School improved to a D after three years of failing ratings. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The faulty foundation our education system was built on — a singular focus on academics, sometimes at the expense of our humanity — is being revealed as the shaky structure it is. At the social and emotional learning program I direct in Massachusetts, we provide evidence-based SEL curricula and professional development for elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sydney Chaffee, a ninth grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy, a charter school in Boston, already felt the toll in October. Like many schools around the country, Codman Academy has tried to offer its staff members a release valve. Related: Restorative justice is about more than just reducing suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If Fairfield County didn’t offer a virtual option, some families would leave the district entirely and instead enroll in an online charter school. Related: Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual. That missing piece of human interaction.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: Demands for a radical overhaul of the Orleans Parish school system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were predicated on low test scores. In the previous survey year, 2013-14, that school had reported no use of restraints and seclusions on special education students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

There are currently 1,876 schools within the New York City Department of Education, including 268 charter schools. No two schools are the same. Students at other schools did not have the same experience. You cannot deny the humanity, needs, and expertise of the very people charged with caring for our children.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

After Katrina, new, emerging charter school providers didn’t see a good fit in their schools for the teachers who taught before the storm — most of them black. In a past column , I wrote that the spread of artificial intelligence technology is replacing human teachers with software in such places as the Mississippi Delta.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Alyssa in her first-grade classroom at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, where she enrolled after moving in with a foster mother who lives near the South Bronx institution. and “What can you do to help make your school feel safe?”. The classroom walls of Mott Haven Academy Charter School are covered in student work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Amid all the bellowing about charters, school choice and vouchers, a potentially more revolutionary reform movement is bubbling up. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Weekly Update.

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JULY 9, 2018

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. School kids may well rebel at the rules. But punishing students for their political beliefs or their opinion of their school is to chastise developmentally appropriate behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Rothschild holds weekly home visits to teach Cousins as part of Threshold, an offshoot of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences charter school. FARMINGTON, Maine — It was well after homeroom had begun in most schools in central Maine when teacher Juliana Rothschild knocked on the front door of a student’s house. “It

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We supplemented the Learning Salons with a broader opportunity designed to engage leaders and decision makers from states’ district and charter school teams, practitioners, researchers and funders in a showcase of BIPOC-created solutions where they learned about undiscovered teaching and learning solutions and tools.

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MAY 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: A December 2018 report that calculated funding in each state first revealed this national recovery. This additional May 2019 analysis is more detailed, crunching the dollars for each school district in the nation. The rise of charter schools muddies this analysis. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

The experiences and perspectives of Black and Latino students I taught at a Massachusetts charter school are very different from those of my Moroccan students. If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. Credit: Collin Cherubim.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Kelly Pollack works with a student in CICS West Belden, a Chicago charter school that uses multiage classrooms as part of its personalized learning model. Leave this field empty if you're human: This year, they change the student groupings frequently as they monitor test scores and conduct formal and informal observations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

That style of discipline has been a hallmark at the charter schools that defined the first part of her career. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. But programs in the highest tier were supposed to have a proven track record and only two of the four — the KIPP charter school network and Reading Recovery — generated stronger test scores.

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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 Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, I was eager to find a way to help students retain knowledge from the prior school year and practice their math skills over the summer. Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Boston. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Many of our students, who are predominantly Black and Latino, found that these posts resonated and decided to participate in the movement by publishing blog posts about surviving charter school, exposing some of the harmful racist, classist and ableist practices they experienced in school.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

LEANLAB founder Katie Boody explained, “We recognized that with school systems facing tough decisions about building closures, many families without internet access would be disproportionately impacted—teachers wouldn’t be able to extend distance learning activities fairly, nor conduct welfare check-ins with all families.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

The researchers from RAND tracked 31 charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run, and nine traditional school districts. All but two of the schools were in urban areas. In other words, it might provide a more clear-eyed look at how personalized learning strategies play out in typical public schools.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last 10 months our team has collaborated with an advisory council of 12 teachers of color representing districts from the League of Innovative Schools , public charter schools including an early childhood center, and private schools across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish and answers technical questions. Then she gets down to what has become the meat of her job as a school social worker at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School: making sure her students and their families are coping with the multiple stresses of the pandemic. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Through Teach for America, he was assigned to teach in a charter school. After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans’ public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters. Many schools cut extracurricular activities, including football.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. The post How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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