The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter School Psychology K-12 Project-Based Learning 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Efforts like these to transform high school are taking off, although hard data on how many high schools have adopted practices that harken back to preschool is difficult to come by. who attempt to replicate its project-based model.

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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country. But many of its key features are more common in private or charter schools than in district ones. “We We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? It’s a daunting task, as evidenced by this past year’s pilot, which was a tale of two schools. These aren’t just for the maker space.

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Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The collaborative is primarily funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, which is among the supporters of the Hechinger Report, and, since its formation in 2016, regularly brings together researchers and education experts to share findings and disseminate them to schools.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. But in this Colorado district, it can also mean learning by working on real jobs. When I was in high school, I wasn’t doing [projects like] this,” Garcia said.

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