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.
ED Surge
JANUARY 30, 2023
The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.
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Teaching American History
MARCH 5, 2024
She learned about MAHG in 2018, at a one-day TAH seminar offered in Tulsa on the American Founding. At the end of the seminar, a TAH representative told participants about Ashland’s Master’s program and the possibility of funding MAHG studies through a James Madison Foundation Fellowship in constitutional studies.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 30, 2018
Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. We take the tests.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Match, like many of its peers in the rapidly growing charter school sector, offers an extended day and demanding curriculum filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes. or 4:30 for senior seminars; many students stick around for homework labs and other activities. In a later seminar, they discuss current events.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Planners of the Brooklyn Lab Charter School in New York, for example, use technology to customize the student experience. The team for Cleveland’s JFK Eagle Academy , however, thought its students would benefit from deep, collaborative investigation, so they developed a program focused around Socratic seminars.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. “I cried the first time I took a test. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.
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