The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am a Harvard graduate, nationally recognized advocate for homeless youth and an education professional supporting family engagement in a network of charter public schools. It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. But instead of failing, I became an “exception.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. Living in a Bubble Most students at our all-girls Catholic school believe they live in a bubble. border with Mexico. border with Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English? Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers. About 20 percent of Texas public school students are English learners, according to federal data, although not all of them are yet old enough to sit for the standardized test.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Here, we are the proud educators of the next generation of strivers in a school that is 89 percent Latino, the majority of whom are English language learners. More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Voice and choice have been embedded in all aspects of the school day. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

There are big gaps in both test scores and rates of learning between white and black students in Atlanta, a city where there is a high level of racial and economic segregation of schools. In all three cities, there is a high degree of racial segregation in the schools. Opportunity Explorer, Stanford Education Data Archive.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court’s ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Making people upwardly mobile requires providing great schools and dismantling systems that keep students from receiving what they need to be successful.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? In some school districts, disparities in CTE enrollment come down to the classes high schools offer.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. Photo: Bekah McNeel/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. Last year, I had meetings with all of the health and human services representatives to find out what their issues are,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles is home to nearly 300 charter schools, more than any other school system in the nation, drawing one-fifth of all kids out of its traditional public schools. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the nation’s second-largest school district after New York City. public education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

2 or later, their child would be the oldest in his class when starting public school (a very good thing from their perspective). Department of Health and Human Services defines ‘affordable’ child care as consuming no more than 10 percent of a family’s income.” If they chose Sept. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics. ” The author is well known in finance, ex-LDS circles, public policy, and right-leaning media, and she has a Master’s from Harvard.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

That lack of attainment is perhaps not surprising: Until last year, Newark’s public schools had been under state control since 1995, when a state investigation revealed school environments that “virtually assure academic failure.” Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

For elementary school teachers, in-depth knowledge of specific subjects might not be as valuable as in-depth knowledge of individual students. Fryer’s study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research , describes a two-year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. While many states increased financing for schools, others did not. In a December 2018 draft paper , “Does school spending matter? Georgetown’s Roza points out that many schools haven’t able to increase teacher salaries very much.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Chancellor Antwan Wilson of DCPS during a visit at the Washington Metropolitan High School. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson and his wife felt that the performing arts school his eldest child attended wasn’t a good fit.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

I saw the same dynamic at play when I first became a teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary , a majority-Latino public school in Chicago. Outsiders may be surprised that the Chicago Public Schools have the fastest academic growth rates in the country, but educators on the ground understand how shifts in strategy can transform outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Just 10 years ago, he was kicked out of his Vermont public school and finished at an alternative high school in Maine. The effort has two chief goals: keeping students engaged in school and keeping them in the state after they graduate. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson, 69, came out of retirement to teach English after learning that Jackson Public Schools were looking for help in local classrooms. The interim school superintendent of Jackson, Mississippi, where Thompson lives, issued a plea to retired teachers to come back. Longtime educator Hymethia W. Hymethia W. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The high school students clustered around a four-foot-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at the Prent Corporation, a packaging company, it looked cute, not intimidating. percent increase nationally, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But the research team in this new study also calculated that children of different ethnicities and races, including Latino, white, black and Asian students, have become more evenly distributed within the nation’s school districts. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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