The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Middle School High School Elementary School 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said. Credit: Nataly Toro.

Tutoring 128

Tutoring Psychology High School Sociology 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

Tradition 140

Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. Even after her daughter received a diagnosis, Jackson felt the girl’s school wasn’t supporting her enough.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

Charter School 137

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 137

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

School leaders say that their students, many of whom are low-income, must juggle jobs along with their coursework, lengthening the time it takes them to graduate. They also said local public schools don’t prepare young people for the rigor required for university classes.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

One in every 11 young black men is incarcerated in our country — a path that starts in our public schools, where black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, which vastly increases their chances of entering the juvenile justice system. We exercise.

Tutoring 111

Tutoring Elementary School Public School Cultures 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

Tutoring 127

Tutoring Social Justice Elementary School High School 127

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan’s situation is unusual, both because he is attending public school and because he arrived here alone. for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. A small, but growing, number attend public schools. My reaction was, ‘That’s weird.’ I didn’t understand.’”.

K-12 111

K-12 Private School Middle School Tutoring 111

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.

Education 133

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Private School 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. These students are part of a summer program run by nonprofit School Connect WA, designed to help them catch up on math and literacy skills they lost during the pandemic.

Middle School 127

Middle School Tutoring High School Teaching 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2017

A California-born charter school network is starting a new program to home-grow teachers rooted in their approach to education. Among the first teaching residents is Janine Peñafort, herself a graduate of Summit Public Schools. She has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish, and worked as a tutor last year in Summit schools.

Teaching 79

Teaching Tutoring Charter School Education 79

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

For this reason, in many countries , school, and formal reading instruction, doesn’t begin until age six or seven. Matt Bardin is a tutor and the founder and CEO of Zinc Learning Labs. He is a former New York City public school teacher. Our country, then populated with critical readers, would change too.

Elementary School 120

Elementary School Tutoring High School Teaching 120

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. Operating in a public school system, you can’t go as deep or be as innovative as BUGS.”

Middle School 139

Middle School High School Private School Public School 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

So a new state law requires public schools to offer intervention for students lagging behind academically. Legislators overwhelmingly backed the bill, which requires districts to provide students who failed state tests with 30 hours of focused tutoring or to be matched with highly-rated educators.

Tutoring 93

Tutoring Social Studies Research Public School 93

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If

Museum 130

Museum Tutoring High School Psychology 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" by Gholnescar Muhammad called for teachers to redesign their learning plans by looking to the literary practices of people I’d never heard of. We must ensure that their portrayals accurately celebrate their past and present influence.

History 107

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Adrienne Hudson speaks to fellow educators during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

Tutoring 96

Tutoring Civics High School Teaching 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

“It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. Goyco school in San Juan. Goyco is one of the more than 600 public schools in Puerto Rico that have closed in the past decade.

K-12 100

K-12 Middle School Tutoring Public School 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The New Orleans public school system is unlike any other in America. All but a few of the 80 public schools operate as charters, which private organizations run using public funds. So last year, Carlos and others asked the new English Language Learner coordinator, Ann Holleman, if they could start a school squad.

Tutoring 111

Tutoring High School Public School Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

Tutoring 102

Tutoring Tradition Middle School High School 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We He was formerly the principal of Edna Karr High School.

Charter School 96

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 96

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

“No sé por qué dudas de ti misma” Hace años, cuando Woodfin asistió de kinder hasta octavo grado en Union Public Schools , ella estudió en aulas bastante homogéneas. Credit: Shane Bevel del The Hechinger Report Unión Public Schools, en cambio, ha intentado encontrar un término medio.

Tutoring 92

Tutoring Public School Cultures High School 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

Charter School 102

Charter School Economics Public School Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools. The new Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont., After winter break, the school enrolled enough new kindergartners to require the hiring of a fifth kindergarten teacher. opened in fall 2021.

Charter School 130

Charter School Elementary School High School Middle School 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

High School 125

High School K-12 Public School Library 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

Elementary School 123

Elementary School K-12 Economics Tutoring 123

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She tutored other kids from public housing.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. Legislators in Mississippi say they’re making hard choices when it comes to schools. Toney used new books.

Charter School 75

Charter School Public School Government High School 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

We have to believe that there are students in those [public] schools who are good and would be competitive, but how do you find them?” They also drive a frenzy elsewhere of practice tests, tutoring and other strategies to gain advantage in the competition for admission that’s largely absent from the public high schools here.

High School 111

High School Economics Psychology Political Science 111

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

Charter School 245

Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 245

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Katie Humphrey, the seventh grade counselor at Columbia Middle School, tries to normalize the idea of asking for mental health support to both children and parents. “I I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Middle School Elementary School High School 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

They’re also more likely to attend poorly resourced segregated public schools that lack the tough curriculum needed to prepare them for college-level STEM courses. Rensselaer’s student population is 15 percent black and Hispanic this year, according to statistics provided by the school. “It It was a culture shock.”.

Tutoring 106

Tutoring Leadership Cultures High School 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools. The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms.

Library 76

Library High School Public School Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Many of those schools were led by white principals and a fleet of white teachers.

Charter School 99

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 99