The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. As a former board member of a charter school in New Orleans, I witnessed students wearing “Not Yet” signs — meaning, they had not yet met expectations — taped on their backs for not following the school’s behavioral policy.

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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 classroom walls of Mott Haven Academy Charter School are covered in student work.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. Angel Allen-Clifford, school psychologist, Paradise Unified School District. It was a 180 turn.”. Eckhart wonders.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools.

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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. His theory, and hope, is that students’ need or desire to misbehave might be reduced if they feel a positive connection with the teacher at the front of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, there’s been a surge in new Montessori schools in the United States, fueled, in part, by new state laws that are expanding the numbers of publicly funded, but privately run charter schools. The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Statues can be taken down; but we must topple the structures that create unconscious and conscious biases against black students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. People tend to get pushed away from math during adolescence or college, says Dana Miller-Cotto, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The reform agenda led to state takeover, the expansion of charter schools, an introduction to school choice via the removal of geographic attendance zones, as well as a radical racial shift in teachers. But this isn’t enough of a reason to cause havoc in kids’ lives. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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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. Even at education schools with courses on cognitive development, students are often left wanting, said Riley, the Deans for Impact founder.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. The idea has gained new momentum recently among schools hoping to make learning more personalized, relevant and student directed.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” In Florida, classroom teachers and librarians are emptying bookshelves rather than risk a felony for having the an unapproved title.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize. She tutored at two D.C. billion tourism industry.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

For example, a 2015 study found that schools with relatively larger minority and poor populations are more likely to implement criminal justice-oriented disciplinary policies — such as suspensions, expulsions, police referrals and arrests — and less likely to connect students with psychological or behavioral care.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Avilez is a high school senior at YES Prep Gulfton , part of a Houston college-preparatory charter school network. At the same time, while nonwhite students may regularly experience more stress than their white peers, they are often less likely to seek psychological help.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kids do well if adults in their environment are doing well,” said StaceyMcEnerney, director of social emotional learning for Codman Academy Charter School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where she added programs and training are aimed at creating a culture of care among the staff. Emphasize adult well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Schools rely on ridiculous marketing ploys, advertising “themes” and practices designed to draw students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. You’re exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said. Go out there and make a difference.”.

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