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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

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STUDENT VOICE: Why don’t elite colleges do more for veterans?

The Hechinger Report

Educating our nation’s leaders, these schools should no longer deprive their students of the opportunity to appreciate veterans as fellow students, as classmates not unlike themselves, and to hear firsthand and learn from their experiences in uniformed national service. Top private schools are a great value.

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OPINION: “Having a parent who excels at local public-school politics shouldn’t be a precondition for a child to get a good teacher”

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2018 Education Next poll , parents rate 15 percent of their local school’s teachers as “unsatisfactory,” which suggests that over the course of their children’s education, parents are likely to face the problem of an unsatisfactory teacher.

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Teaching the Bill of Rights: Religious Liberty

Teaching American History

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. In 1879 the Court stood by the centuries-old understanding of marriage , ruling that religious freedom was bounded by basic legal traditions embodied in the common law.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Boaler’s critics had arguably won their main policy battles.