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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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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Image credit: [link] A school leader can create a more connected community by leading the charge to develop a school brand. Private school and college leaders have used brand thinking for years to message their faithful communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

In Reggio-inspired schools, children are viewed as capable of constructing their own learning when guided by a skilled teacher who understands the importance of harnessing the natural curiosity of young children. Related: Will the real Montessori please stand up? Now, with the announcement in April that Boston Mayor Martin J.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. For students from families making $48,000 per year or less, the net price rose roughly the same amount at those schools as at schools that raised tuition by larger amounts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.

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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

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

AUGUST 26, 2023

More than one million students nationwide did not return to public school after the pandemic. Some enrolled at private schools, others began homeschooling, and still others seemingly disappeared , according to Thomas S. Dee, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It says , “As originally implemented, the program offered students who attended or who were assigned to attend failing public schools the option to choose a higher performing public school or a participating private school.” Offered an option — that’s correct. Opportunity — that’s not always correct.

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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. Colleges “want to be careful,” said independent counselor and former admissions dean Sara Harberson.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Some parents who would have used the public schools have enrolled their children in private schools or decided to pay special child care centers to supervise their kids using online public school programs. “We And yet, this year Teddy started kindergarten at his Catholic parish’s private school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In practice, though, for most highly selective private schools — more specifically, the overwhelming majority of schools that are not need-blind, as Harvard is — this ruling will have little impact on who is offered admission.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Like Pearl, the district organizes its schools by grade level instead of by neighborhood. Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. That’s no small feat, as housing and schooling are closely tied,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Lee Brand, a local pastor and member of the school board, says the town limits are a stark line. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Before consolidation, Oktibbeha County School district enrolled just 856 students, 96 percent of whom received free and reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty. “So

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like in many private schools and Rhode Island, high school seniors had to complete a deep, complex, multidisciplinary capstone requirement in order to graduate? every high school student in Iowa had the opportunity to do a credit-earning, community-based internship before graduation?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. And that’s just the average number of applications per student. This year we’re looking at 30.”. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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JANUARY 1, 2018

Some of the students who attended the public Montessori schools had family incomes as high as $200,000 a year. Half of them attended a private school; others went to a federally funded Head Start program. The students who “lost” the lottery all ended up at some other sort of preschool.

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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. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Transportation is also a workforce issue.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace. Nicole Stephens and Andrea Dittmann at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., You will send your kids to private school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In rural Rajasthan, construction will soon be underway for a new all-girls school that will showcase local goods and heritage handiwork in this former medieval trading center, while combining education and economic development for local women. The private schools are not necessarily better,’’ Sahni said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. “It’s hard to argue that race and ethnicity is not important, but it is not the only form of diversity,” said Marvin Krislov, president of Pace University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school focused on the arts and offered a project-based curriculum, and Otto had always been creative. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Our goal is to be accessible to students from across the economic spectrum.”. But access to institutions that are flipping that narrative and boosting social mobility, like 26,814-student Stony Brook, has declined. His parents did not attend college and he said he takes the university’s public mission seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools. One day Bowie found his brother drenched in sweat and passed out at the school’s track.

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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.

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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. They’re also extremely successful.

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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 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

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

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. I see my students off in their homes, some of them relegated to the basement, often sitting in a comfortable chair or on their bed. Most of them were seniors.

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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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