The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Maybe they never will.

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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

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

JANUARY 19, 2017

Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Photo: EL Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. You got in?’

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Charter School High School Social Justice American History 113

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

I am a black man and strong advocate of charter schools, as a founder and full-time teacher at one in New York. Nowhere is the inequity of paternalism and structural racism more insidious than in the charter-school sector. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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Charter School Social Justice Museum Leadership 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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