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MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. Meanwhile, most white students attend selective schools that administer tests that students must pass to be enrolled. Schools should get the resources they need to be successful with any population.

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MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Like the country itself, struggling to transition away from a straight, white, male-centered culture, campuses are laboring to find the best way to evolve. Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. It’s not a thing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away.

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JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. million people, the country is significantly smaller — the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity. In fact, many U.S. College is free.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school focused on the arts and offered a project-based curriculum, and Otto had always been creative. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. A lack of morale and cultural competency.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brooking Institution, calls for readers to pay attention to “the specific challenges being faced by boys and men” in education, work and family life. Or as my wife’s mother sort of told her from as long as she can remember, it was, “Be economically independent. Yeah I think it’s that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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MARCH 17, 2021

One reason Black and Latino students may not have been choosing Boston Latin School is a “harsh and unwelcoming” school culture for Black and Latino students, said Zoe Nagasawa, an Asian American senior at Boston Latin School who interviewed students for a report she co-authored last summer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

On average, black and Hispanic students nationally attend schools in which two-thirds of students are from low-income families, the researchers found. A number of white families left the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies , many of which still thrive.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Related: We need an education commission to take a critical look at private schools. In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). Conjoining the education and labor departments won’t change that view.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5

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AUGUST 12, 2024

School choice Harris, who was endorsed by the nation’s largest public school teachers unions, has voiced support for public schools, but has said little about school vouchers or school choice.

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