Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

LEANLAB founder Katie Boody explained, “We recognized that with school systems facing tough decisions about building closures, many families without internet access would be disproportionately impacted—teachers wouldn’t be able to extend distance learning activities fairly, nor conduct welfare check-ins with all families.”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My time as the director of family engagement at a charter school in Cincinnati gave me insight into what it takes to cultivate this space, and I knew I would need a team of dedicated individuals to help me achieve this goal and execute our DEIB strategic plan. Who gets to decide what books go into the library? they asked.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world. This story about early education and literacy was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2019

Catalina Stirling, a teacher at the DC Bilingual Public Charter School, became involved in the initiative during a D.C. But one day, on a walk, they found a Little Free Library — a small, public book exchange that looked like a house. Young children can influence the way adults see the world,” Mardell said. Democracy in action.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Erin and Sean Jett, whose house is so nearby they hear the school bell ring, did not have school-aged children at the time. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Best Practices Sometimes, best practices are seen as the golden standard—that thing that will “save” the urban school from low performance, perpetuating the notion that best can only look and sound one way.we In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Lauren Koehler, executive director of San Francisco Unified School District’s Enrollment Center, counsels a parent hoping to enroll her child in a district school, but only if the charter school she applied to doesn’t extend an offer first. She’d also need charter school enrollment to stop increasing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Kelly Pollack works with a student in CICS West Belden, a Chicago charter school that uses multiage classrooms as part of its personalized learning model. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Iturralde has worked at Kingsburg Elementary Charter School District, a five-campus district in the rural Central Valley of California, for seven years. Lee and Iturralde say their charter schools’ cohort-style learning is a huge benefit for students and teachers. I get new books every week,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, at the progressive charter school where I work, we’ve launched a pilot program of what we call inquiry projects. Using living rooms and libraries for classrooms, teachers or parents help kids through the curriculum, then fill the rest of the day with outdoor activities, art, movement and projects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. Students at the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, a charter school on San Jose’s low-income east side. She never took the ACT or SAT.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Students line up with their books for library in a kindergarten class in Maine. This school’s demographic make-up has changed dramatically in the past decade, over 70 percent of its students are English Language Learners. NEW YORK — This time of year, social media feeds are teeming with back-to-school pictures.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Students don’t live in schools. We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. Allowing kids to ride public transportation for free reflects how students actually live and learn. They live and learn in communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter. They encountered mostly silence.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Related: A padlocked drinking fountain, tree stump seats and a caution-taped library: See how the coronavirus has transformed schools. Camille Fei, a junior at Philip Simmons High School in Charleston, South Carolina, hopes to start an equity club this year to address the lack of antiracism education at her school.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Black America, Black Literature and Black Liberation Once I completed my two-year commitment with Teach for America, I returned home to Dayton, Ohio where I taught downtown at a charter school. Would I have to “learn my place” and take the Logan family off the shelf of our classroom library? Absolutely not.

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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. I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

With these restrictions being so specific and tied to precious federal funds, most charter schools in New Orleans contract out food decisions to national companies like the one my school uses. These mandates align more closely with the lobbying priorities of corporate farms than medical advice.

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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. Engineering students used computer-aided design software to build 15 “Little Free Libraries” and placed them in neighborhoods where libraries and bookstores are scarce.

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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 Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises. But the proportion of overage students in Louisiana schools outside New Orleans is still startlingly high, averaging around one-third of students in 2014. Terr’Nique Delair sits in English class at George Washington Carver High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Oakland’s superintendent, said the first couple of months of the pandemic were a scramble. “It

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Letters and Ink Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Up until my junior year of high school, I went to school online. I begged my parents to let me go to a real school, and I got enrolled at a local charter school. They might not know how to get a library card or they can’t get to the library. Most libraries offer programs like this, too!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Cayanne Korder, 18, studies in the Red Wing High library before heading to a local hospital for an internship. Kami Aguilar, a counselor at a brick-and-mortar high school in Happy Valley, Oregon, found the electronic format limiting when she worked from 2012 to 2015 as a virtual counselor for an online charter school. “It

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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. Delaney volunteers at the library, works as a counselor in a nearby nature camp and teaches skiing all winter. Her parents agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It’s not uncommon for weather to force school closures when flooding makes the roads impassable. The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. Clifford Hamilton, a lifelong resident of Leslie County and director of the county’s library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. on April 10, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. Namely, she is looking to give her kids a recess period, which has also been linked to higher achievement. Her teachers use that time to collaborate, plan and learn from each other.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I had a few interviews that summer – and one charter school even offered me a job without interviewing me! As is typical at many schools, the teachers spent the week before school began having meetings, setting things up, and trying to get our ducks in a row before the kids came.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

If a former tenured professor of engineering at Tulane University can’t get approved to manage a charter school, something is horribly wrong. Instead of cutting back, we need to devote more resources to libraries, mobile schools, recreational activities, dance programs and other services that can operate in violent hot spots.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

Create a Pop-up Display Create an interactive display for your school or library to promote discussions about the dangers of banned books and efforts to defend the freedom to learn. Library Read-Ins On July 16, 1960, seven students from Sterling High along with college freshman, Jesse Jackson, entered the library and were arrested.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Harris reached out, and today Widener runs a charter school for local children, offers free health and physical therapy clinics and is helping restore a museum. “I

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