The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it. Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

“Students in low-income families are over six times more likely to attend a high-poverty school.”. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. Urban Institute analysis from 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it? The story that our culture tells, as a result of such assumptions, is a story of personal lack on the part of all African Americans. I have often had this experience of others assuming that I have my own “up from the ghetto” story.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A supervisor who worked in the school saw the importance of developing young teachers; she became my saviour. This supervisor brought with her immense skill not only in classroom practice but also in helping to translate university training into practical K-6 classroom application. Teachers now have a road map for moving forward.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

The report found that school uniforms and dress code policies reduce time in the classroom through the real stories of 21 black girls who attend 12 different public schools, including charters, in Washington, D.C. This double standard encourages sexual harassment and does nothing to ameliorate rape culture.

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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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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. Together, they’d spent countless hours discussing essays, aid applications and the differences between state and private schools. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed.

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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. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college.

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The Hechinger Report

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

JUNE 11, 2019

I’m looking around and talking to students all coming from private schools and preparatories and hearing the mind-boggling opportunities they’ve had,” she said. Korder realized this first-hand in early April when she attended a selective pre-college program at Emory in Atlanta. That’s what they get to put on their resume.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plessy Community School. The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. The school wasn’t perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. Yet not a single teacher in this private preschool in Bensonhurst has a master’s degree and nearly half do not return each year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. Chen says Christian schools have similar work to do.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this required 12-week “Introduction to Mindfulness” course taught by Worthen, a full-time mindfulness instructor, students at the private boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, will learn how to develop awareness of their thoughts and body sensations, sit with difficult emotions and direct their attention to the present moment.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

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. But then you get to about 30 percent female, and the culture really starts to change.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This is a very culture-heavy city and the more teachers you have who know that culture, the better the schools will be,” said Walton. Administrators and charter school networks are just starting to see how important that is.”. Private schools have also been affected.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

At 12 of the companies, former educators served in at least one high-level position (CEO, vice president or a director.) In Livingston's experience, that tends to be people who went to the same private schools and selective universities as the founders. The change is a drastic one for the company, founded 12 years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Instead, the school is planning to work with North Carolina State University’s Caldwell Fellows to host a summer school program for its students, according to Principal Larry Savage. Related: This country spends billions on private schools — and has a terrible learning gap between poor and wealthy. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

The group has mobilized people to push back against what it calls “the radical indoctrination and injection of political agendas in K-12 education.”. Nazeer said she dislikes seeing students left out of conversations in which politicians are dictating everything from wearing masks in school to what books are in libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

These factors are situated squarely in enduring cultural, social, and historical issues of race in Mississippi.”. Related: Former educators answer call to return to school. A lack of morale and cultural competency. Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote.

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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

MAY 25, 2016

says Title IX is usually associated with sex-based equity in athletics—having girls’ basketball and track teams, for instance, in the male-dominated culture of sports. “That would be public schools, a museum, lots of places wherever there’s federal tax dollars. But advocates say it actually applies much more broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

While pundits seized upon issues like critical race theory as a driving force in recent election results, Rodrigues talked to parents who just wanted to make sure their kids had a competent bus driver and got a hot school meal. The organization’s polling has found that three-quarters of parents support the idea of changing K-12 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

She blamed his school, and the investigators from the state’s child welfare agency they’d sent to her door. Until last fall, Banks had only good things to say about her children’s school. Many more have seemed unfounded, with cultural differences in child-rearing clearly playing a role. Out of options.

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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

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

JULY 6, 2016

Long after the Supreme Court ended school segregation with its 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, race remained a contentious issue in the educational sphere, and many white families enrolled their children in private schools known as “segregation academies.” I have to struggle for all the resources I get,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. Typing and tech?

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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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The Hechinger Report

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.

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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

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. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

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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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