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. to attend middle school or high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. They’re a really great starting point,” said Doug Webber, an associate economics professor at Temple University. Doug Webber, an associate economics professor at Temple University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. On the first Wednesday of December, the stage risers were out and the backlights were on as the women’s choir rehearsed in the Pearl High School Performing Arts Center. Photo: Sarah Warnock/The Clarion Ledger.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute. Report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute, analyzing recent Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs data.

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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. Meanwhile, most white students attend selective schools that administer tests that students must pass to be enrolled. Schools should get the resources they need to be successful with any population.

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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 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. But that hasn’t been proven.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

“It really does sort of go counter to so much of the message that colleges want to send forth, which is, ‘Everyone is welcome … and everybody has a chance of getting in,’ ” said Patrick O’Connor, a former private school counselor. Those could include major, geography or high 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. After visiting the high school many of these students were coming from, and observing that most of their instruction was remedial, Swanson knew they would struggle at Clairemont.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise. John’s University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

“Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

I’ve learned there is no ceiling on what wealthy and ambitious parents will do and pay for when it comes to coveted private school admission. Most public schools in the U.S. School counselors aren’t. but it’s all part of the broader inequality permeating U.S. Related: Shocked by the admissions scandal?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2020

I just taught a high school class the other day, that’s taught by a friend who teaches at a private school, and those students, some of them hadn’t shown up. What’s happening with high school seniors who are supposed to be finding out, or have been finding out, about where they’ve been accepted?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Cyndy Taymore, superintendent of Melrose Public Schools. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners. Olivia transferred to Melrose High School after spending her freshman and sophomore years at a private school. “A

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace. You will send your kids to private school. She had a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

My friends and I spent our high school days on AsianAvenue.com , an affinity website for Asian Americans, to build community, yet we were perpetually exposed to the hypersexualization of Asian American women. I grew up with few models or examples of Asian American representation online. i in the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Home of Hope, funded by private donations and fundraising events, spends more than $4,800 a month per family in its program. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA. Citywide, black students make up 82 percent of public school enrollment, while low-income children also comprise 82 percent of students. Josh Densen, founder of Bricolage Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. A new high school facility is under construction. Lake Oconee Academy is expanding.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Estonia had the second smallest gap in performance between its poorest and richest students out of all participating countries known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What we have tried to do is not simply collect the most important opinions, as a law school “casebook” might, but to excerpt key cases reflecting important arguments that high school students—young citizens—ought to reflect on. Russell Lee, “The school day opens with prayer at private school at the Farm Bureau building.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Related: A school where character matters as much as academics. In Bristol, known as “ the birthplace of country music ” for the Carter family and other artists who recorded there in the 1920s, economic upheaval over the past decade has intensified the need for social-emotional learning, school officials said. The PTA withered.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The students are predominantly low-income; in the last school year, 81 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, according to state data. “As The school is comparatively affluent; only 66 percent of its students are economically disadvantaged, a rate 15 points below the city’s average.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Protesters demands for an end to systemic racism must include demands for an end to state support of private schools that, by gobbling up scarce financial resources, deprive Black and Brown children of a quality public education and deprive all children the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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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. stands for gender, race, age and ability, culture and economic status.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Kaitlyn Barton teaches English at Clarksdale High School.

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