The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2018
“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The promise of greater efficiency has been an attractive argument for charters as states struggle to keep up with ever rising educational expenses. localities.
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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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. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.
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. The idea that education can only be found in a brick-and-mortar school is as myopic as the idea that we can jail our way to safety.
4QM Teaching
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. This means using evidence from the past to try to understand the minds of the people who created it.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
9, contains resources on how to have civil discourse on contested issues; historical information and current news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; material on discussing war and violence in age-appropriate ways, and information on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia in schools. The guide , released Oct.
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