Charter School Project-Based Learning Research 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2017
Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2017
Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Efforts like these to transform high school are taking off, although hard data on how many high schools have adopted practices that harken back to preschool is difficult to come by. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S We say, ‘Of course!
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Shareece DeLeon, a teacher at Impact Public School’s Salish Sea Elementary, accepts plastic food items from one of her students during a 90-minute block of play time. Play and free-choice time can be even more restricted in classrooms that serve high rates of low-income, Black or Hispanic children , research shows.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Now, a new study out by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research firm, makes the argument that collaborative, group learning might actually serve each student’s individual academic needs quite well. “It’s a mind shift,” said Kristina Zeiser, a senior researcher at AIR.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2020
“The Promise Neighborhoods’ goal was to replicate the work of Harlem Children’s Zone — a federal grant program to do in neighborhoods across the country what Geoffrey Canada did for Harlem,” said Megan Gallagher, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a social and economic policy think tank. Credit: Harlem Children's Zone.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 26, 2019
But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? It’s a daunting task, as evidenced by this past year’s pilot, which was a tale of two schools. These aren’t just for the maker space.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2023
They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.
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