The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture. at a time when more merit aid from universities, along with private programs and government aid, is going to wealthy students with high grade-point averages and entrance test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

“To be clear, this is not about a grade in a class that in the grand scheme of Corey’s life had no bearing or relevance on his success, but rather your complete and utter lack of cultural competence and respect for us as parents and Corey as a student.” Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. It’s not a thing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

government prohibited discrimination in education on the basis of sex. It makes sense to me that maybe if from birth you have felt a sense that you have to overcome adversity as a girl or a woman, that might drive you in a different way than if, as a boy or a man, you don’t necessarily get that cultural cue. Yeah I think it’s that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s built around a skills-based model that prioritizes student mastery, extensive community outreach and a culture that views college enrollment as an expectation rather than a long shot. For fellow senior Raoul Sandoval, similar warnings came from family members who lived and worked in the school’s Lower West Side, Pilsen neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The Restart program relies on the premise that schools know what is best for their students and should be granted flexibility to make changes. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. Opportunity Culture was the dramatic intervention the district chose.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. Others worried that the English learners would drag down test scores and hurt their school district’s reputation. They love family.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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Sapiens

MARCH 7, 2024

Because Gaza was under Egyptian administration until Israel occupied the territory in 1967, the Jordanian government has treated these individuals as Arab foreign residents in the country. Following the 2007 establishment of the Hamas government in Gaza, however, Israel imposed a strict blockade on the entry of basic goods and people to Gaza.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Wright agreed to hold off on applying the new rules, and on Tuesday, May 24, the nine-member Mississippi Board of Education decided in a unanimous vote to side with state leadership not to follow the federal government’s Title IX guidelines. David Sadker, professor emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C.,

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Thats why Anjum is among those dismayed by the aggressive backlash against programs centered on diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government, private companies and higher education. Her firm advises companies, schools and other organizations on cultivating inclusivity in the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

While we rubbernecked at the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have undoubtedly caused trauma to children separated from their families, last week, the White House released a 132-page proposal to restructure the federal government. Government bureaucracies that grow over time can be anathema to innovation and efficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We have seen an erosion [of support] and a legislature that has not only underfunded our public schools but chosen to essentially choke the life out of them,” Cooper said. “We We cannot give up on public education even though some government leaders have.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

In Kentucky, other students I spoke with described becoming activists long before the Roe leak: Minhal Nazeer, 16, said she wanted to protest and join civics organizations after taking a government and politics class. Related: Are book bans stopping a Marxist revolution or whitewashing the past?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. Anything in the government does.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. School choice also raises larger questions about why the government funds education at all.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Second graders would be asked to identify stories from Christianity that influenced the American colonists, Founders, and culture, including the teachings of Jesus the Nazareth (e.g. Two days later, he announced that he was sending 500 Bibles to Advanced Placement government classes. the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal governments role in education. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to redefine what the federal government considers discrimination in schools and on college campuses. Since taking office Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

They have used their own wealth and a robust fundraising apparatus to push lawmakers to approve school choice proposals that even some proponents of choice question: namely, public charter schools run by for-profit companies, and the use of taxpayer funds to pay private school tuition through vouchers. Catherine E.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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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. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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