The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy has developed tools to analyze social studies curricula and is currently reviewing how much knowledge the Baltimore and Miami-Dade schools are helping children learn. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers at one elementary school in Washington state described it as promoting kids to grade-level material with extra support, such as a preprinted multiplication table to help them follow along in class, while also asking teachers to somehow find time to do catch-up review when breaking the class into small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

On the one-year anniversary of the fire, rather than sticking to the lesson plan, Marsters decided that students would watch Bob Ross videos and paint. “As Hilary Ervin, special education teacher, Paradise schools. Sabine Wolpert, seventh grader, Salmon Creek Charter School, Occidental, California. But I can’t.”

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link. For a copy of a completed student version of this lesson, follow this link.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens. Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says. In the past, she explains, in order to get a Harvard education, “I had to go through Harvard; I couldn’t just go straight to a professor.”

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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

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. Her parents agreed. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. That helps a lot if you need to ask a question.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The term describes game-like measures of knowledge and abilities, but also the tracking of skill development in playful learning activities, which was piloted over the past year by middle school teachers at Corte Madera and at Community Public Charter School in Charlottesville, Va.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, even the handful of schools that have successfully ditched grade levels, such as Waukesha STEM Academy, a charter school about 20 miles west of Milwaukee, must still keep age-based groupings in the background to sort students for standardized testing. “We Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. Worthington Direct.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Online education and remote education are two very different things, said Steve Kossakoski, CEO of the New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter School , or VLACS, which has been hosting free webinars for educators seeking digital-learning guidance. Related: Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report. Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. They also learned to develop clear communication plans that allowed students to know exactly how to reach an instructor and get the needed support.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years. The district introduced programs in the last few years to help schools find more students experiencing housing instability and connect them with assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Some school systems have reported usage rates below 2 percent. Not even the most highly regarded and expensive tutoring programs using professional tutors who are following clear lesson plans achieve this. That would mean that students learned an extra 14 weeks worth of math from just a few extra hours of instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Studies have found that sessions once or twice a week haven’t boosted achievement much , nor has frequent after-school homework help. Effective tutoring sessions are scheduled during the school day, when attendance is mandatory, not after school. More than 70 percent of the students never logged into the tutoring platform.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Rights, Respect, Responsibility was developed by Advocates for Youth and includes free lesson plans for all of the elementary grades. FLASH was developed by the Family Planning Program of Public Health – Seattle and King County and includes $75.99 All three organizations offer teacher training on request and for a fee.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. The board has not indicated if it has plans to move ahead with improvements Grimes planned for middle and high school English learners. It has been scrapped.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The website for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History features a collection of essays, primary sources and teaching materials for educators teaching Reconstruction to students in high school and college. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I and ‘Why was this rally allowed?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Former Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison, a Republican, believes Mississippi’s controversial history with school choice shouldn’t deter the state from embracing public charter schools or helping parents pay for private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, the bandwidth boost teachers and students have been enjoying during this school year is already setting the stage for academic improvement, they said. That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

So far, the settlements have brought new staff to Supai, and the BIE had to reconstitute the school board. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. A new principal pledged to stay longer than a school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Hillsdale boasts a national network of affiliated charter schools, and one of its former professors helped revise South Dakota’s social studies standards along the lines of the 1776 Curriculum. Language throughout the proposed curricula specified that Hillsdale materials would now be “required” instructional resources for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District. “I

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