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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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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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.

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Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools. In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” Since then , we have been exploring ways to remake high schools — and have invested over $200 million in that cause.

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High School Charter School Education Policy Tradition 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools.

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