The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Since 2011, our schools – one charter, one district – have participated in a partnership that demonstrates that when schools step out of their comfort zones they not only can improve student outcomes, but can effect positive change across entire teaching communities. Burke High School in Dorchester, Mass.

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High School Charter School Professional Development Public School 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House. Christopher House teachers start at between $46,000 and $50,000 a year.

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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. Evergreen School District – San Jose, CA.

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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. Schools also have access to professional development gatherings in the fall and spring, a Summit “success manager” assigned to their schools and online support, all at no cost. They share impressive results.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

He was joined by Nora Newcombe, who directs a federally-funded Science of Learning Center at Temple University and Mayme Hostetter, the dean of the Relay Graduate School of Education. The problem doesn’t stop when teachers graduate from schools of education. There is a more immediate threat,” said Newcombe.

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Charter School Psychology Tradition Elementary School 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With a student population of more than 30,000, serving a large Latinx population, Bakersfield College in Kern County, California, began to reevaluate how it could help increase high school graduation rates and serve more students at its campus locations. The early college model is already drawing attention within California.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Tradition 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Related: Young and inexperienced, a new principal tries to turn around a New Orleans charter school. For some districts, the support program involves assigning a school staff member to work with a principal to help that principal improve time management skills. That doesn’t equate to results. Training the trainers.

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Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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K-12 Charter School Public School Cultures 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city’s schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching Charter School Professional Development Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I Photo: EL Education. Most are small.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 62

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Related: More charter schools mean fewer early education options, research finds. Teachers benefit from in-class time to develop this level of analysis and a variety of effective responses. These gains are often more pronounced for lower-income children.

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K-12 Charter School Professional Development Tradition 99

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The entire district had just one teacher certified to teach English as a second language, no interpreters and very little by way of professional development. “We The district also invested in professional development for teachers, ensuring that it happened during work hours, said Ezzell.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschool advocates and practitioners have overcome opposition from the National Education Association; they’ve cleared the restrictions, regulations and other hurdles erected by state or local school officials; and they’ve developed a network of support for parent-instructors who otherwise have little access to professional development.

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K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For most of the past two decades, those battles have been waged primarily among East Coast liberals over standardized testing and charter schools. Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

When her private school told the Simmons family they would have to shell out up to $10,000 a year for once-a-week personalized reading instruction and other services, they decided to transfer their daughter to Louisiana Key Academy. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

The department also administers Pell Grants for low-income students some 7 2 percent of Puerto Rican students apply and supports professional development efforts and initiatives for Puerto Rican children who move back and forth between the mainland and territory. There are some encouraging efforts.

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