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AUGUST 5, 2024

DuBois to recover their understanding of the integral importance of social mobility and the eradication of caste in the fight for civil rights, a tradition Ferguson calls anti-caste constitutionalism. Lucien Ferguson is the 2023-2025 Drinan Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School.

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JULY 18, 2023

It has a far-reaching ripple effect, with power to uplift individuals, families and entire communities; it remains the most reliably consistent path to economic and social mobility. Will it be economic interests, such as legacy, donor status and the ability of the student’s family to pay the “full freight” cost of college?

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JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. So does the U.S.

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MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. And I was terrified to go to school every day. I played in ensembles.

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MARCH 15, 2024

The task ahead is daunting: The Department of Education only started sending batches of student records this week to colleges that will determine aid offers, and about 200 have already extended the traditional May 1st deadline for students to accept offers.

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MAY 24, 2022

In Chicago Public Schools, for example, data shows that attendance dropped precipitously, especially among Black students. That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility.

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APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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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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JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When Harlandale Independent School District in south San Antonio shuttered its doors in March amid the coronavirus pandemic, Melissa Casey’s first thought about her students was, “How are all of their basic needs going to be met?”. Harlandale High School in south San Antonio. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, “ The Future of Jobs ,” a majority of employers say creativity is one of the most valued qualities they seek in their employees, along with critical-thinking skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And there’s more information about alternative pathways, including the military, apprenticeships and technical school. “We We don’t want kids who have goals other than a traditional college to feel like ‘this has nothing to do with me,’ ” said Kristen Pereira, the group’s senior curriculum specialist.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Nearly one-third of the schools within the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), the largest non-Catholic Christian school association in the U.S., Supreme Court mandated public school desegregation, as many white families fled the public school system. Enduring legacies.

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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. That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. We knew we had an equity problem.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers and school personnel who work with low-income students are more likely to trust their own work and don’t see students as liabilities or risks. If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow. This effort does that.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The school also prioritizes economic equity. Instead, Anderson is hoping more private funding will allow the school to stay afloat and eventually expand diversity and equity initiatives. Related: Voters guarantee Oregon public school kids a week in the woods. When many U.S.

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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. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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Caldwell County Schools is a mid-sized public school district in northwestern North Carolina. We're about 60 percent economically disadvantaged here in the district. You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program. So, we do try to look at equity.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Jake, then a junior at Newcomb High School in Newcomb, New Mexico, was a good student, but Curley worried because the college-level class was online. Experts worry about the long-term economic impact on Native communities if students continue to forgo college in large numbers. “It

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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. We implemented flexible learning time each day and began developing interest-based units, which allow students to choose from non-traditional classroom subjects like animal rights or activist art.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. Her organization estimates that now 6 to 10 percent of public school districts across the United States are piloting or planning competency-based approaches.

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JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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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. Related: English one day, Español the next: Dual-language learning expands with a South Bronx school as a model.

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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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AUGUST 5, 2019

During this same time period, the number of Latino school children increased from 7 million to 11 million , because of higher birth rates among Latino mothers and Latino immigration. public schools fell from 29 million in 1999 to 26 million in 2010. Meanwhile, the birth rate among white mothers fell.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

The adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates. Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I She had started public school and no longer traveled to BMCC with her mother, and didn’t understand why she saw so little of her. “I And of course, she plans to show up on Jan.

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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. I would definitely not give up on public schools,’’ she said.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bricolage has been anointed as one of the good schools by middle class and affluent parents, who have long complained about the lack of options in the public school system for their children. Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. All of our traditional tools,” said Smith, “have to be reconsidered.”. 13, 2018.

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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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