The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. The seven schools also emphasized student-teacher relationships and built a caring community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea. But the extra time was coupled with other school reforms, such as teacher evaluations, and it was generally impossible to tell how much the extra time alone was making a difference.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has encouraged librarians to follow social distancing and manage traffic flow in stacks, nearly a quarter of school-level librarians told the AASL in an August survey that their school’s library would not be open or used at all. Credit: Jessica Shearer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. We don’t question why students come to school to learn academics,” said Laina Cox, Capital City’s middle school principal.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St. “As

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Mississippi policymakers have welcomed charter schools as a promising solution to low test scores and persistent achievement gaps. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the question before the state’s authorizer board as Mississippi decides whether its first two charter schools can stay open. Weekly Update.

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Edthena

AUGUST 17, 2015

Amanda Huza, middle school principal of Equality Charter School in The Bronx, knew that video had the potential to be a powerful tool for the teachers and coaches on her staff. The post Equality Charter School Gave Teachers More Ownership, Time Using Edthena appeared first on the Edthena blog.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Santos is the director of journalism and media arts for the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. Santos began her teaching career in a facility for students found guilty of criminal offenses; in the nearly two decades since, she has been a teacher and administrator in various schools.

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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. Now, a similar lot costs $2.5 million, Saunders said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Pam Strobel, behavior interventionist, Lake Charles College Prep (LCCP) charter school. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in nearby Westlake, she can relate to her students. Tiffany Guillory is a middle school technology teacher at S.P. They’re behind,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Thousands wanted to go to highly regarded middle schools, some of which were in nearby suburbs of the large Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district. The lucky ones, who won a seat to their first choice middle school, were less likely to be arrested or end up in prison between the ages of 16 and 22.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

That was true for many SpaRRk parents: District surveys of SpaRRk families found that health concerns were the biggest initial draw, but by 2022 parents instead cited the program’s quality, the school’s close collaboration with families and the flexibility as reasons why they stayed. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Students in the community attend Bragg Middle School (pictured here) and Gardendale High School. In December 2018, Indiana’s State Board of Education released a memo reinterpreting existing laws to streamline the state’s onerous school secession process. Gardendale High School in Gardendale, Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

—If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Or at least that was the ideal world imagined by a group of Brooklyn middle schoolers this year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.” Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2019

Students at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School benefit from personalized learning and two hours per day of small group instruction. The longer students attend Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School, the better they do. By the end of middle school, though, they’re doing better than their peers in District 13.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Gehlbach, together with two other researchers, put perspective taking to a real world test at a charter school network in the northeastern United States. The researchers only had discipline records for middle school students so they weren’t able to perform the same analysis for younger kids.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Last year, California became the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Alyssa in her first-grade classroom at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, where she enrolled after moving in with a foster mother who lives near the South Bronx institution. and “What can you do to help make your school feel safe?”. The school plans to halt its expansion when it reaches eighth grade in the 2019-20 school year.).

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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! Nontraditional grade groupings are another way to address students’ individual learning needs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

— Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Caballero and Perez-Duque met when Caballero was a fifth grade teacher at a bilingual charter school just outside San Diego called Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. It’s not the same. It doesn’t work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

From my perspective you could find and replace ‘DCPS’ [DC Public Schools] for basically any major school system right now,” tweeted Ben Speicher, the principal of a charter school in Philadelphia. The shift in post-HS [high school] plans is a real uncovered story right now.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. Related: Proof Points: The chronic absenteeism puzzle Across district and charter schools in Oakland, California, chronic absenteeism skyrocketed from 29 percent pre-pandemic to 53 percent in 2022-23. You get farther behind.”

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

In some cases, schools employ leaders who focus primarily on administration, not teaching, although decision making still happens collaboratively with teachers. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St. Last year, teachers earned just 76.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The 51-year-old teacher racked up 14,000 steps that day assembling bags of books and worksheets for families of her third and fourth grade students to pick up as they were let in, five at a time, to the public charter school in South Phoenix, Arizona. Families who needed devices for their kids also picked up Chromebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field. Before digging into the Fordham Institute’s quantitative analysis, I want to explain why cognitive scientists think that background knowledge is so important in reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

She previously taught middle school literacy and produced network-wide curriculum and professional development at Alpha Public Schools in San Jose, California, and RePublic Charter Schools in Nashville, Tennessee. C hristina Pirzada is the program manager for social-emotional learning at Newsela.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The view from the entrance of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can’t help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class. SANDY SPRINGS, Ga.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2014

In 2011 KIPP, the charter school chain, released a much discussed report looking at the outcomes of its own students. They found that one in three students who completed a KIPP middle school had graduated from a four-year college at least a decade later. These were good results.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

A middle-school student works on a math problem. 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. Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Boston. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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