The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do. Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

Recent in-depth case studies of Chicago and Baltimore City Public Schools and my own research, including candid conversations with current and former big-city superintendents, have convinced me of a stark reality: States and cities must either empower bold leaders to make dramatic changes or step in to make those changes themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points. In addition to investing in affordable wellness resources, schools and districts must help educators cultivate their own social and emotional competencies. There are different approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

But teachers often come unprepared to do this work, and don’t get the support they need from their schools and districts, in part because special education is chronically underfunded. They may struggle to assess students’ abilities and needs, education researchers say, and turnover for special education teachers tends to be high.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. The research-based Montessori method can serve as a showcase for what’s possible for our children through personalized learning.”. I was so used to everybody being there for me and looking out for me.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A Mathematica study of 480 low-performing schools found that the federally funded turnaround efforts failed to boost math or reading scores or high school graduation or college enrollment rates. It seemed that the whole notion of quick school turnarounds was a misguided failure. That’s ultimately what we want, right?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

The research is clear: Children who struggle to read in the early grades rarely catch up with their peers. They are far more likely to suffer low self-esteem, they increasingly fall behind in other subjects and they likely won’t graduate from high school. On the flip side, research by the Annie E. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap. “We Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Free speech is tied to academic freedom — the autonomy to teach and research ideas without the consequence of retaliation. Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography.

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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. 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. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Now, a new study out by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research firm, makes the argument that collaborative, group learning might actually serve each student’s individual academic needs quite well. “It’s a mind shift,” said Kristina Zeiser, a senior researcher at AIR.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Since its inception, Digital Promise has been researching and designing approaches, in partnership with school districts across the country, to enable schools and teachers to create and implement strategies to support learner variability , an initiative currently led by our Chief Learning Officer, Vic Vuchic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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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

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

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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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

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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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. What makes me happy?

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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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Moreover, a growing body of research now shows that high-quality dual language immersion programs benefit both native English speakers and English language learners. “I cried the first time I took a test. It makes the homework harder.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

These tech teams offer a unique opportunity for students to take on leadership roles and develop valuable skills like problem-solving, teamwork, communication and critical thinking, in addition to increasing their technical know-how. But interestingly enough, some of our most vocal advocates who take leadership roles on the team are females.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

The release of the website earlier this month concludes more than a year of research, including more than 100 school visits. The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When confronted with such concerns, our immediate response as educators, researchers, and policymakers is often to assume the problems lie solely within the education system. Case Study #1: Briya Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. But the challenges do not end – or even begin – in the classroom. They begin in the home.

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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

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 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. And if they said ‘Yes,’ I took them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Barbara O’Brien, and nationally renowned education specialist and researcher Hedy Chang in order to present at the Capitol on chronic absenteeism and about the effects of poverty on early-childhood literacy. She recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press to talk about education legislation, school funding and charter schools.

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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

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 19, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Moreover, a growing body of research now shows that high-quality dual language immersion programs benefit both native English speakers and English language learners. “I cried the first time I took a test. It makes the homework harder.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The recent wave of blistering accounts from women about the sexual harassment and assault they have faced in their work not only exposes their abusers, it also reveals the grand failing of schools. Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. It may start small.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. We can’t afford not to.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. A strong principal is one of the most influential in-school factors in increasing student achievement, research shows, especially in low-achieving or high-poverty schools.

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