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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series - Branding

A Principal's Reflections

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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Do public schools beat private schools? The quality of evidence

The Hechinger Report

Tuition at many of New York City’s top private schools is over $40,000 a year. It’s grown almost 50 percent in the past decade–faster than private university tuition. In fact, in several grades, students with similar demographic backgrounds did better in math when they attended public schools.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

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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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

ED Surge

,” claims to be the first to inspect the link between whether students attend school and how satisfied teachers are with their jobs. It only occurred by October of 2023 using federal relief dollars, according to economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Using data from the U.S.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

This can have a long-term impact; the rigor of high school courses has been found to be the No. In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white.

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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Stella Kalina for The 19th With 133,560 residents, Pasadena has one of the densest concentrations of private schools in the country , according to school officials. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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Chinese “parachute kids” tackle U.S. schools on their own

The Hechinger Report

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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