Charter School Humanities Pedagogy 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 20, 2019
Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.
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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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2017
What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about. Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. High Tech High in San Diego is a renowned charter school that attracts educators from across the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
These outstanding schools share seven key elements. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. By third grade, they are debating complex topics, like genetically modified foods and the ethics of testing human drugs on animals.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 23, 2017
As part of the deal, they partnered with High Tech High, a San Diego-based charter school network and a national leader in project-based learning. School networks such as Big Picture Learning charter schools and the Catholic school network, Cristo Rey, have done real-world learning since the 1990s, for example.
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