The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2020

There’s no shortage of ideas among the state’s legislative body when it comes to addressing education: Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. The state’s second rural charter will open this fall.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Black, Indigenous, students of color make up more than 50 percent of the K-12 student population, yet the number of non-white teachers in schools is only 20 percent. This moment allowed teachers to show up as full humans—raw, vulnerable, and true.

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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. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? 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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this required 12-week “Introduction to Mindfulness” course taught by Worthen, a full-time mindfulness instructor, students at the private boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, will learn how to develop awareness of their thoughts and body sensations, sit with difficult emotions and direct their attention to the present moment.

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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

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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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

JUNE 2, 2014

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. Something about Jeff Bezos “being a good human being but his hearing isn’t so good.” CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software.

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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

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. She was forced to change schools as a punishment for bringing to school knives and pepper spray that she considered protection against off-campus threats.

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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

APRIL 23, 2024

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It is a wonderful school with a wonderful staff. I spent the first 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

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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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 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. Only 12 of the 67 innovations, or 18 percent, were found to have any positive impact on student achievement, according to a report published earlier in 2018. Since then, more than $1.5

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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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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

JANUARY 7, 2018

In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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

APRIL 10, 2018

More than 330 schools now use the Summit Learning Platform, designed by the Summit charter school network in California and Washington.). Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

Not only will we be helping young people to be resilient human beings — we’ll probably learn to better ourselves along the way, too. When trauma occurs, it is absolutely our responsibility to respond with swift and meaningful support. The post OPINION: The best time to teach students how to cope with trauma?

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services. By then, however, the school year was wrapping up. stayed at Keystone, she would likely attend its charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Efforts like these to transform high school are taking off, although hard data on how many high schools have adopted practices that harken back to preschool is difficult to come by. It doesn’t look like a prison, basically,” she added. We say, ‘Of course!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Smartphones, however, offer limited access because several school data systems are more difficult to navigate on mobile devices. Leave this field empty if you're human: Bey said that as Zuberi goes through the course, things will begin to change for him, the same way they did for Bey when he first joined the program. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

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

APRIL 30, 2017

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world. This revealed the value in “manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things,” as it sparks up learning centers in the human brain. Photo: Kevin Hagen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

“I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. As a former charter school executive, I experienced how parents and principals alike cut off real solutions at the pass.

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