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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The charter school era was predicated on the notion of breaking up the monopoly that unions have on schools. Collective bargaining agreements, aka union contracts, had a stranglehold on schools, reformers cried. Related: A private school resets its tuition. and Newark, N.J., Better late than never, I say.

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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. “It’s only a handful,” said Barbara Goodson, a researcher at Abt Associates Inc., ” “That’s the dirty secret of all of education research,” Goodson added.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schools that served primarily families of color — Fairfield is around 90 percent Black — reported particularly high demand from parents for a virtual option. Research before the pandemic often showed poorer outcomes for students in virtual schools versus brick-and-mortar ones. The research paints a grim picture.

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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. The post How to Improve the Teacher of Color Pipeline?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts. But research has been mixed on whether it works. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

When schools closed in mid-March, Kansas City was confronted by the region’s deep digital divide. LEANLAB Education has long cultivated a network of educators, policymakers, funders, researchers, and entrepreneurs across the region. By May, they had deployed more than $1.5 Supporting Parents with Statewide Helplines in Rhode Island.

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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

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

And schools should not expect a dramatic or sudden increase in math and reading test scores, according to the new research from RAND Corporation. The researchers from RAND tracked 31 charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run, and nine traditional school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Benjamin Bloom understood the value of personalization in 1967, when his research showed over 90 percent of all students could learn at high levels when provided with instruction that effectively met their particular learning needs. Personalization is a growing focus for policy development, technology applications and educational marketing.

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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

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

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. In the morning’s reading lesson, most of them worked on their own iPads, moving through Lexia Reading modules or researching famous figures on sites like YouTube.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. Research shows that students across all socioeconomic backgrounds experience nearly three months of learning loss in math over the summer. The pilot was immensely successful.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Because for whatever reason, we're not creating pathways for folks to actually be able to come into whatever the solutions are.” — Solution Provider Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation engaged in exploratory research through a pilot initiative called Learning Salons to explore this idea.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The research is overwhelming. Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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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. But the negative consequences aren’t restricted to the kids removed from school. Actually, students need to learn proper behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

And of course, being young kids, going through schools, the person in any position of authority is teachers,” Hansen said. Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Related: It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools. The Greenfield model was conceived in the fall of 2014, when a team of school designers led by Samouha traveled the country visiting charter schools and borrowing their best ideas. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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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. First, we did our homework.

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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. They were fired en masse after the storm, as state-led school reforms were ushered in.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Funding researchers at MSIs who study teacher recruitment and retention is a critical component of positive change.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city. Their school building can be seen in the background as well as several green water storage tanks. They are participating in a discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Schools’ transportation offerings have to be considered as part of the overall economic and workforce development strategy in the city. Leave this field empty if you're human: If you don’t think transportation options matter, look at what happens when school systems don’t address their students’ mobility needs. Weekly Update.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

This does not balance out in favor of lower-income families,” said Steven Barnett, senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. More children may be off track, not just academically but also emotionally and even physically, exacerbating inequities along class and racial lines.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school.

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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.

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