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APRIL 13, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report In Metro Nashville Public Schools, 77 third graders — or 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. Students who fail Algebra I (which most kids take in ninth grade) are far less likely to graduate high school on time and attend a four-year college. So far, efforts to help students recover may not be enough.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Shawn Clemons, director of accountability at Hickory Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s the largest school district in the country and at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. What will happen to more than a million public-school students in the fall of 2020? Will schooling resume as normal? A blended model, in which students attend school on certain days and learn from home on others?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Now that the debate on Question 2 has been decided for the foreseeable future — the ballot initiative was defeated, meaning that the current cap on charter schools will remain in place — it’s time to shift the focus to how we can improve opportunities for all Massachusetts students, whether they attend charters or traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan’s situation is unusual, both because he is attending public school and because he arrived here alone. for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. A small, but growing, number attend public schools. My reaction was, ‘That’s weird.’ I didn’t understand.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

From my perspective you could find and replace ‘DCPS’ [DC Public Schools] for basically any major school system right now,” tweeted Ben Speicher, the principal of a charter school in Philadelphia. The shift in post-HS [high school] plans is a real uncovered story right now.” public school students are Black.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, some high-performing themed schools remain out of reach to many low-income students, due to screenings — such as tests or auditions — that favor families who can afford private lessons and tutors. Operating in a public school system, you can’t go as deep or be as innovative as BUGS.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

School leaders say that their students, many of whom are low-income, must juggle jobs along with their coursework, lengthening the time it takes them to graduate. They also said local public schools don’t prepare young people for the rigor required for university classes.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Black and brown students are more likely to attend underperforming schools that leave students underprepared for college entrance exams.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. We’re making efforts, but we haven’t done enough,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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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

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. An increase in the number of qualified teachers not only means more teachers in schools, it means more people earning middle class salaries. “We

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

For now, with the pandemic still keeping school closed and spring assessments cancelled, it is impossible to answer the original question of whether integrating Khan Academy into public schools will improve learning. Khan said only that was still being worked out. But Jara wasn’t ready to quit.

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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

JUNE 12, 2016

But is it possible there’s something worth saving from what many came to see as a deeply flawed federal approach to public schools? Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio-economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

More than 90 percent of students in each of those schools are classified as economically needy, a figure that rises to 99 percent at four of the schools, according to the Collier school district. In high school, he worked as a tutor at the center.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Encouraging blacks and Hispanics, both growing populations, to pursue STEM careers is both an equity issue and crucial for the economy, according to Rodney Andrews, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. She discovered that Rensselaer offers plenty of extra help and now regularly attends tutoring sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. As of last year, there were fewer than 4,000.

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