The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2019

It’s almost as if we’ve returned to the days of “separate but equal” — wherein political leaders find it easier to advocate for increased funding to some schools, predominantly low-income and minority schools, rather than call for all schools to have integrated student bodies. help to end school segregation?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Research shows that a flexible understanding of numbers is strongly correlated to later math achievement and the ability to solve problems presented in different ways. Unlike the recent surge of evidence on science-based reading instruction, research and emphasis on number sense isnt making its way into schools and classrooms in the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. Walters, NBER Working Paper No. 25796 May 2019. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. They see them as taking away voters’ right to have a say in how schools are run.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

According to Ken Montgomery, Executive Director of Design Tech High School (“d.tech”), a charter school in Northern California, “The world is going to change quickly and unpredictably, so the best thing that we can do for kids is give them a mindset and skillset that whatever the world is like, they can succeed and find their path.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Coahoma County will be home to the first rural charter school in the state. Rural charter schools are often seen as a threat to the scant resources available for rural public schools. The first rural charter school in Mississippi will open next August in the Delta town of Clarksdale. Higher Education.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

This literature review summarizes research on factors that contribute to the continuing decline in the teacher of color workforce and presents promising practices to improve teacher of color recruitment and retention. We are building on the research by inviting teachers of color to design pipeline and retention solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

As I met with global educators and researchers over the course of several days, a few key themes emerged as ones to keep an eye on in the early childhood space this year: 1. Phil Murphy has proposed requiring school districts to offer free pre-K to all 3- and 4-year-olds in the state, according to NorthJersey.com. New Jersey Gov.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

New, important research out of Stanford University, Harvard University and the U.S. The researchers controlled for many factors, including the family’s socioeconomic background, neighborhood, education and wealth, among others, and still disparities existed. Many are calling this research groundbreaking. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do. Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. Further, the group argued it might be necessary for virtual (or online-only) charter schools to be separated from the charter designation completely. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., The patchwork of contradictory research was confusing. The patchwork of contradictory research was confusing. Researchers were curious to understand why some teacher evaluation programs were more successful than others. Overall, it’s a wash.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world. “A Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

That year, the Supreme Court required the county to abolish its separate Black and white schools and students were reassigned to different schools to integrate them. The researchers focused on roughly 500 larger school districts where there were at least 2,500 Black students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year. (I’m I’m excluding optional after-school programs here.) until 5:00 p.m. One didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

Almost five years ago, Summit Public Schools decided that scoring high on standardized tests wasn’t enough to ensure success after high school. Leaders at the California-born charter school network decided that students needed to have the skills necessary to understand how to survive in life after a teacher stopped holding their hand.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

I work for a nonprofit charter school in Chicago, teaching special education to third-graders who attend general-education classes. When the coronavirus struck, my school switched to remote learning. Now third grade is almost over, and districts are announcing their plans for remote summer school.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

Capture existing best practices, programs, and models that are currently being employed by school districts and charter networks. Include a research agenda designed to ensure we capture data and learnings from the collaboration. School Districts, Charter Networks, Organizations).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

School closures and remote learning have upended classrooms, relationships and support systems, putting students at higher risk of developing anxiety and depression. I teach at the Pioneer Charter School of Science in Everett, Massachusetts, a city just north of Boston. In the meantime, we’ll keep our Zoom cameras rolling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

But teachers often come unprepared to do this work, and don’t get the support they need from their schools and districts, in part because special education is chronically underfunded. They may struggle to assess students’ abilities and needs, education researchers say, and turnover for special education teachers tends to be high.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Teachers are crying out for help to keep kids on task, but student behavior is difficult for education researchers to study. Researchers usually resort to picking a handful of students to focus on. They collected more than 100,000 observations of student behavior from roughly 1,100 students over the course of a school year.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Mississippi policymakers have welcomed charter schools as a promising solution to low test scores and persistent achievement gaps. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the question before the state’s authorizer board as Mississippi decides whether its first two charter schools can stay open. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Santos is the director of journalism and media arts for the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. Santos began her teaching career in a facility for students found guilty of criminal offenses; in the nearly two decades since, she has been a teacher and administrator in various schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Third grade math teacher Karen Demore says her students at New Frontiers Charter School need to understand math as a journey, not just a series of right or wrong answers. Karen Demore, third grade math teacher at New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: Sarah Garland. SAN ANTONIO — Karen Demore booms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences. A Collaborative, Community-Based Research Project.in

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

We are thrilled to announce the following new district members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools: Baldwin-Whitehall School District , PA. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools , NY. Copper River School District , AK. Covina-Valley School District , CA. Huntsville City Schools , AL.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. The research-based Montessori method can serve as a showcase for what’s possible for our children through personalized learning.”. I was so used to everybody being there for me and looking out for me.

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