ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. Teachers, school administrators and academic leaders in public and private schools have been seeking our services to cope with their chronic fatigue.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. When our children do not learn, we are forced to seek alternative solutions, but few of us can afford tutors or private schools with curriculums seated in the science of reading, and fewer still can afford to homeschool.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Massachusetts has an innovation school law that Dickinson thought laid out a clear path to her dream, only she couldn’t find a school district to partner with. Instead, she opened a small private school in Winchester, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston and one of the state’s wealthiest communities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating. What Our Students Deserve Our public school students deserve the world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

More established ones are overseen by one adult, often a former teacher or a parent with an advanced degree related to education, and students and parents play an active role in setting school culture, according to Wood. In part, Wood views the schools as addressing the continued fallout of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Adopting a theme like sustainability, the arts, or math and science can cement a middle school’s culture, give coherence to its curricula, and boost student engagement at a time when many students are losing interest in school.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston. “We How much language and cultural barriers can play a role in parent communication? I work at an international school. How can we find a solution for this?’

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. This past spring, I had the opportunity to develop a virtual cybersecurity camp for young women and girls called CompuGirls.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. The battle became personal, with some criticizing her $5,000-an-hour consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Charlotte In Charlotte, North Carolina, the school districts have been seeing a decline in white residents with slight increase in the proportion of Hispanic, Black and Asian residents. Source: American Community Survey. Visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. That is just scratching the surface,” Rogers says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School. At Middlesex, a college-preparatory school that attracts students hailing from across the country, there was a large shift in the school’s culture after introducing mindfulness classes. We see kids not staying up as late, getting better sleep.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. White- and middle-class folk showing others that it’s not a risk to send a child to a good school with lots of black and brown kids — now that’s real reform.

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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

MARCH 29, 2024

Tlingit culture as well as aspects of other Native cultures are being taught in that space. It’s inspired by Deep Springs College, a tiny, two-year, private school in California founded a century ago by banking and power-company magnate L.L. Tlingit language is being spoken in that space.

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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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Smithsonian's History Explorer

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The semi-autobiographical graphic novel tells the story of a 12-year-old black boy, Jordan Banks, who experiences culture shock when he enrolls at a private school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Its students weren’t fooled by the elegant name.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Like “Ready Player One,” it’s packed with references to pop culture from the early days of computers and digital culture that made me nostalgic for a simpler, more optimistic time of tech. The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. Read more from Jeff here.

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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

For aspiring leaders seeking promotion, localized agendas and school cultures had a strong impact on what was valued and subsequently rewarded. While individual school cultures remain, a much more level playing field exists for those seeking promotion through merit, using the teaching standards to justify their claims.

Professional Development 79

Professional Development Private School Public School Cultures 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

This double standard encourages sexual harassment and does nothing to ameliorate rape culture. At their best, uniforms and dress codes help enhance students, parents and teachers’ sense of school community, that feeling that we are all in this together, and are a way to obliterate very obvious class differences. “For

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The Hechinger Report

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

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. and “What is the capital of Greece?”

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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 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.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

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.

High School 83

High School Tutoring Charter School Private School 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

To ease the cultural jolts that students encounter, the Lost Hills charter has sought to engage parents, many of whom have limited English. Part of that outreach includes a 10-week, school-based program for parents that covers nutrition, language development and family communication. Children of company employees who graduate with a 2.5

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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.” He’d finished the year with mostly As and Bs. I just don’t think they like me,” he’d say.

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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. S he hadn’t told anyone, but she’d decided she couldn’t go back to Birmingham in January. I struggled with that.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Education and work experts say it is too soon to tell if we are on the cusp of deep cultural change in how our education system guides students from school to work and life — wherever they come from. The pandemic and social unrest have spurred activism and artistic and creative efforts, she said. Related: Shopping for a major?

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Social Justice Advocacy High School Human Rights 122

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

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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Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 105

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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High School Charter School Library Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Private schools like Arkansas’ Delta School and New York City’s Riverdale Country School (which has a phone app students can use to access a strengths list) are likely to have the resources to explore promising trends like this. Expense is not the only hurdle.

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