The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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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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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. Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Traditional school districts that attempt to bring a new model of education that provides personally designed lessons for students often face conflicting priorities that make it difficult to follow through, according to a new report released today. All but two of the schools were in urban areas. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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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

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The Hechinger Report

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

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

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. It doesn’t look like a prison, basically,” she added. We say, ‘Of course!

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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

AUGUST 2, 2018

Last year, Major League Baseball and EVERFI traveled to DREAM Charter School in Harlem to talk to students about using their academic ‘off-season’ to sharpen their skills. Related: Baltimore summer school does the seemingly impossible — the kids actually want to be there. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

JACKSON — In an interview with the Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick, an educator from DeSoto County, called charter schools “private charter schools.” Haley Barbour, appointed by Barbour to his commissions on tax study and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Decades of research, both about educational best practice and the way the human brain works, say these types of motivators are dangerous. In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line. Students don’t take traditional classes. and another 100 abroad).

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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

MARCH 12, 2018

They are two-week intensive courses that take children outside the classroom and beyond the traditional subjects. Related: It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” These are not field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Retentions in Louisiana peaked a few years after Katrina and have fallen steadily since; nearly 9 percent of the state’s students were held back in 2007, only 5 percent were retained in 2011. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. 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. And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. In the U.S.,

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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

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

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. Most are small.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Despite the innovative ethos of its tech-world backers, the school’s approach to core subjects was “very traditional,” according to Wesley Davidson, an English teacher at ChiTech. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

In Colorado, rural districts have worked together to offer more AP courses by creating video conference classrooms, where kids at one high school can watch courses taught by a teacher at a neighboring school. In high schools such as ours, the future of learning is distance learning.”. A score of 3 is needed to pass.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S. cities, the 2-year-old classrooms could be at risk of attracting a self-selecting pool of more motivated and savvy parents, like Kerrach, who understand the advantages that an early start to school can bring. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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. The weight of the decision and the guilt of knowing the impact it will make.

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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. You go through the hallways and can’t get anywhere.”.

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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. Weekly Update.

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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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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

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, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. They also normalize cisgender and traditional roles and views.

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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. I spent this entire year in a constant state of I-don’t-knows.”

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