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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. Buyer beware,” she advised.

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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

JULY 1, 2024

About 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools. They tried a private school, but found that Isaiah struggled there.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Source: American Community Survey. Visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo.

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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?” “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Initial research suggests the gamble could pay off. This year, the district expanded the concept to a third of its 82 schools. Team teaching, a concept first introduced in schools in the 1960s, appealed to the ASU researchers because they felt its unusual staffing structure could help revitalize teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Research backs up what Carter perceived — that exposure to people with different voices and experiences yields better learning. 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. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Backpacks hang from the wall in a New Orleans school. I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Debates over racial segregation in exam schools were already raging around the country before the chaos of the pandemic hit. Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr.

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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. “Where do you want to go to college?”

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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. Related: Column: New research offers home to first-generation college grads. “I You will send your kids to private school.

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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. Swanson had been inspired by research out of the University of California, Berkeley on the role of peer group support in getting students of color to push and pull each other to academic success.

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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

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. He brought in an ACT expert, and hired an admissions counselor away from Wesleyan University to help with their personal statements.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? But what is it, exactly? Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Through monthly calls and countless texts and emails in between, they also researched schools and financial aid prospects together. For now, research on existing virtual programs and their impact is scant. They have students who are conducting research at universities. That’s what they get to put on their resume.”.

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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. Nova is willing to make the sacrifices for UMass Amherst because she believes the giant public research university has the better reputation. Tutors danced. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Early data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows college enrollments down this fall for the second year in a row. 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.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2020

Georgia Heyward, of the Center for Reinventing Public Education on a business funding an entire school. It’s unusual for a single company to take on running a school. To ease the cultural jolts that students encounter, the Lost Hills charter has sought to engage parents, many of whom have limited English.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

School officials tout the arts-based curriculum and the joy they say it brings students, but acknowledge that side-lining test preparation has caused test scores to suffer and lowered the performance grades the school receives from the state education department. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I 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.

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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. Gross agreed. Yet churches are still segregated.

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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

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. Yet demand for the vouchers is such that Florida parents and schools are having trouble accessing them. It’s not a movement,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

for instance, private schools proliferate in the white, wealthier areas of the city and majority-black charter schools are situated in the black, poorer neighborhoods (see figures 1 and 2). Charter vs Private Schools by Income in Washington, D.C. Charter vs Private Schools by Minority Percentage in Washington, D.C.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. In a review of 61 studies, researchers found that mindfulness in schools resulted in improved cognitive and social-emotional functioning.

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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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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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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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