ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest rate of burnout in the American workforce, with more than 44 percent of K-12 workers in the U.S. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. In my first school, the workload was unbearable. I’m still grieving.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said. It’s so nice to understand,” Omar said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. The opportunity to lead this work full-time in a K-12 setting felt like a natural next step.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2016

spends more per student than other countries on K-12 education, that spending is not translating into better performance. Case Study #1: Briya Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. This result earned the U.S. Even though the U.S. Creating a digital literacy skills curriculum for a specific learner population.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Overall, total virtual enrollment remains higher than before the pandemic, but, in some cases, it has declined relative to its pandemic peaks, according to Gary Miron, a professor with Western Michigan University’s Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Children become conditioned to make good choices when adults are around, but they don’t internalize the long-lasting habits and mindsets that lead to leadership. At [my high-performing charter school] someone would see you struggling and go out of their way to help you.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

Though not its original intent, the district set up a massive virtual learning experiment when, in order to placate anxious parents, it extended enrollment in its remote program for K-6 students during last summer’s delta variant surge. By the time the K-6 virtual program ended Jan. Rodriguez said she felt comfortable, though resigned.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Around the country, educators have increasingly adopted elements of restorative justice amid growing frustration over the number of class hours lost to out-of-school suspensions: According to The U.S. million , or 6 percent, of all K-12 students received at least one out-of-school suspension during the 2011-12 school year.

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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. Learning for a purpose is deeper and longer lasting; leadership means taking responsibility for what matters to you, something every person, whether adult, child, or in between, can learn to do.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. When the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut down, its 83 district-run schools and 33 charter schools served more than 49,000 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The school is one of 10 winners of the XQ: The Super School Project competition and will be awarded $10 million from the XQ Institute, an initiative designed to encourage schools to invent new ways to update and redesign America’s high schools, which it argues “remain frozen in time.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest. They included traditional public schools, a magnet school and a charter school. Sometimes, the students had clear roles and rotated the leadership role.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The pair planned to ensure that the school would reflect the diversity of the Somerville Public Schools, in which about 42 percent of students are Latino, 10 percent are black, 37 percent are white and 43 percent come from low-income households. The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans. Related: How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2016

Authentic leadership would infuse a need-based framework into TOPS that’s focused on increasing access to college for those who actually need it. But I should expect our leadership to drive an agenda that makes sense. The K-12 associations should be lock step in ensuring TOPS is protecting the most vulnerable students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID (which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) is animated by a simple belief: Once children begin to see some success in school, their self-perceptions will shift so dramatically that they’ll commit to becoming stellar students — and this commitment will propel them through college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

She recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press to talk about education legislation, school funding and charter schools. Considering the financial condition of JPS and the City of Jackson, how do you think the growth of charters will affect that district? Well, the charter schools can open up anywhere.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This transcends school type. Charter schools and regular schools alike are implicated in the problem. But the outpouring of articles on recruiting black teachers has drowned out the scholars who aren’t afraid to name racism as the main reason black students aren’t as successful as they should be in school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2016

Cook, who leads the Taylor County School District , was named one of the top “ 20 Educators to Watch ” last year by the National School Boards Association and the Consortium for School Networking, both nonprofit professional organizations for educators. Eight of them dropped out of high school.

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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. The fifth element is school leadership. The first is differentiated instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The research has sparked recent interest as some districts and charter schools experiment with new strategies to integrate schools without resorting to practices like the forced busing that spurred protests among both white and black parents in earlier decades.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Groups of students, often volunteering their free time outside of class, work closely with their school’s learning coach to become experts in using tablets and troubleshooting many common tech issues. As they learn more, the tech teams take on major leadership roles in their schools.

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