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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.

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MAY 21, 2024

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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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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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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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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MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. This effort does that.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It’s a bit of a perfect storm for these institutions,” said Jason Stein, research director of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. Jason Stein, research director of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. between 2010 and 2018.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. And that’s just the average number of applications per student.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. Tyler Mckenzie, 18, is a senior at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi. That’s no small feat, as housing and schooling are closely tied,” she said.

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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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MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

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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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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. But it’s also really solvable,” said Areeba Haider, a research associate for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

The pendulum swings on K-8 versus middle schools. The research goes back and forth, and the districts go back and forth, but they’re not always thinking about how to create the conditions for success.” The research comparing outcomes of students at K-8 and middle schools remains inconclusive. John’s University. “We

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. But public schools don’t look like the public. Inequality is also structural as much as attitudinal.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Related: Column: New research offers home to first-generation college grads. “I 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, associate professor, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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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. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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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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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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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JANUARY 16, 2020

According to a 2017 study by Harvard University researchers, Stony Brook — one of 64 campuses in the State University of New York system — sends more than 51 percent of its low-income students into the highest 20 percent of income levels. Our goal is to be accessible to students from across the economic spectrum.”.

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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. Swanson had been inspired by research out of the University of California, Berkeley on the role of peer group support in getting students of color to push and pull each other to academic success.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Research backs up what Carter perceived — that exposure to people with different voices and experiences yields better learning. Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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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

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system. More than a quarter of U.S.

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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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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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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. Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Most of them were seniors. Stephen Smith.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

While nearly 90 percent of school district leaders say they are investing in social-emotional products, according to one survey , only a small share of the many programs in existence have been rigorously vetted. In the Bristol school district and elsewhere, some administrators feel overwhelmed — and wary. The PTA withered.

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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. This type of effort is an important start.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

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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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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