ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Although no one specifically cited bell hooks or Patricia Hill Collins, several participants describe their teaching styles as akin to revolutionary feminist pedagogy characterized by a sense of radical care for their students. Some have started their own schools, and some have transitioned into higher education.

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Education Charter School Pedagogy Research 127

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are a few of my favorites: Would you please state, concisely, any relevant experience you have had in public education, either as a student, a teacher, a school leader, a public school board member, a parent of a public school child, a PTA member, a volunteer in a traditional public school or as someone who once drove past a public school?

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Charter School Pedagogy Public School Tradition 76

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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K-12 Charter School Pedagogy Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about. Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. High Tech High in San Diego is a renowned charter school that attracts educators from across the U.S.

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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 99

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We supplemented the Learning Salons with a broader opportunity designed to engage leaders and decision makers from states’ district and charter school teams, practitioners, researchers and funders in a showcase of BIPOC-created solutions where they learned about undiscovered teaching and learning solutions and tools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Many top state and federal education officials have exacerbated the problem by advocating for school choice programs, including charters and voucher schools that take funding away from traditional public programs schools. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? Franz said.

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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. A school cannot provide students an outstanding education over several years unless virtually every teacher is on board.

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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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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 80

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. School networks such as Big Picture Learning charter schools and the Catholic school network, Cristo Rey, have done real-world learning since the 1990s, for example.

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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S. cities, the 2-year-old classrooms could be at risk of attracting a self-selecting pool of more motivated and savvy parents, like Kerrach, who understand the advantages that an early start to school can bring. It’s much better for low-income children.” (The

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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. My Experience with Summer Reading as a Student I’ll never forget my first summer reading assignment. Then I received my summer reading assignment.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

Arkansas In March of 2017, an Arkansas state representative introduced legislation to prohibit teachers in all public schools or state-supported charter schools from including any books in their curriculum by — or even “ concerning ” — Howard Zinn.

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Education Library Social Justice K-12 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. At first glance, the notion of school choice is a no-brainer. There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school. It’s very flexible.

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Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 238

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 110

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Other places that are having a harder time, maybe they’ve either done this backwards and gone out and just purchased a lot of devices and haven’t changed any pedagogy,” said Shawn Rubin, chief education officer at the Highlander Institute. “Or Cassie Iacona, a Fuse RI fellow who coaches other teachers on technology use.

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Leadership Charter School Pedagogy Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Others, like charter expansion and school closures, did not live up to the promise Clinton hoped for. In 2014, Bill Clinton forecast his wife’s evolution when he said that charter schools have not held up their “original bargain.” And if they do, they don’t keep them.”

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Charter School K-12 Education Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Sarah Dean, an English teacher at a public charter school in the Nashville area, objects to the video and to the fact that the sponsor of the Tennessee bill, State Rep. But when it comes to teachers, people think, ‘Well, I went to school, so I must know.’ It’s sheer projection.” Gino Bulso, is a lawyer, not an educator.

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