The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? Charter schools similarly involve state financing, allocated to state-chartered, privately managed and operated schools, which typically face at least somewhat tighter state oversight and regulation than purely “private” schools.

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Digital Promise

MAY 29, 2015

Just four years later, the League still holds those goals, but the educational landscape in which the League operates has changed significantly. Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

During her first semester at Southern Methodist University, Savannah Hunsucker went on a retreat with the other students enrolled in her leadership scholars program. But she suspected that a private school or public school outside of Kansas might work well for her. Will Gruen, student at the University of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

Department of Education and proposed federal funding cuts announced last month, we must remain resolute about strengthening education: improving the lowest-performing schools, growing a talented teaching force, and better preparing students for college, career and life. Amid concerns being raised about the direction of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Montessori Method was developed by Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician, who opened her first school in 1907. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. I’d never learned to do that before.”. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

But they’re cropping up across the country, particularly in places where families aren’t limited to their neighborhood school zone, according to Andrew Maxey, a member of the board of trustees of the Association for Middle Level Education, or AMLE, an organization that supports middle school educators.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

So badly, it seems, that the state is no longer requiring some educators to have a bachelor’s degree before they enter the classroom—merely that they be working toward one. Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs.

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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. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. I know that sounds terrible when thinking of educators, but it’s true.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2016

Just five years later, the League still holds those goals, but the educational landscape in which the League operates has changed significantly. Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

I expect myself to make more than $72,000 immediately after graduation,” said Polanco, whose parents were educated professionals in the Dominican Republic but gave up their careers when they immigrated. One of the challenges for low-income students is the rising cost of education, especially at public universities such as Stony Brook.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Even in describing the program on its website, the Florida Department of Education uses the phrases interchangeably. 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They have the drive, work ethic and leadership skills to succeed in the classroom. More of them should apply to top schools. They have defended our nation, the same nation these schools have flourished in for well over a century. There is no excuse for the continued absence of veterans at America’s top schools.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

In too many cases, what happens in schools today doesn’t look much different than it did decades ago: seat work, memorization, and regurgitation of a discrete body of knowledge and skills. In the book, the authors used a school theater program as an example of this kind of learning at the periphery. ” Sarah Fine, Ed.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Headed to Pittsburgh to discuss education on Saturday, Dec. 14, Democratic presidential aspirants would do well to avoid echoing the claims of their donors and speak instead to evidence on what improves schools. ” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. public education. Corey Booker (D-N.J.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are now three charters in the state (all in Jackson), and Miller worries that more charters will continue draining much-needed funding from the already strained JPS budget, eventually leading to school closures. Greg Richmond, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. I don’t believe that.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All through high school, my counselor assured me that if I worked hard I would be able to win enough scholarships to cover the cost of college. To maximize my odds of winning a full-ride scholarship or getting accepted to a school with generous financial aid, I applied to 23 colleges and for more than 50 independent scholarships.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. When Odegard was the first student in his school to solve a complex murder mystery puzzle, one of them said he must have guessed. I compensated for my reading and spelling problems by staying up until 1 or 2 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Read upcoming reports on school choice in Sweden and France at The Hechinger Report. 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. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Ted Beard, a longtime Longview Independent School District board member, watched the football players race across the field and wondered how long the commitment to integration would last. The district is at a pivotal moment now that a federal court has released it from decades-long supervision of its policies for educating students of color.

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Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 68

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At first glance this strength-based approach seems like the educational equivalent of kitsch, a bit fringe and hardly necessary. It’s different from “character education,” a method focused on instilling various traits like grit and perseverance, because a strength-based approach focuses on what children already have going for them.

Elementary School 93

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

For years, Indiana has lagged behind other states in funding high-quality education for its youngest residents. A 2018 report published by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University ranked Indiana second to last in access to state-funded pre-K programs. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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K-12 Charter School Private School Elementary School 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, ED Data Express. Children of color make up the majority of public school students under age 18, and their share of the population will only grow, even as the total number of college students is projected to drop by 15 percent over the next decade. University of Oregon.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

“There is no poor school or wealthy school … we are all together from the very beginning.”. “We Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. Diversity works.”.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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Education Project-Based Learning Private School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

. — They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Did the town’s good-intentioned integration plan succeed in bringing a deeply divided community together to improve education for both black and white students? Board of Education decision in 1954. “If

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Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Alma White, for whom the school was named, was a notorious racist and xenophobe with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. For nearly 50 years, the small private school has been led by the Grosses, a white family whose mission was to educate K-12 students from a Christian worldview. But perceptions have been hard to shake.

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Private School K-12 Economics Public School 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But a troubled school system is nothing new in a state that has long failed to provide all of its children with an equal, integrated education. For almost as long, over a half century, black families in Holmes County have taken to the courts and organized to challenge the conditions in their children’s schools. In Alexander v.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. It’s an approach associated with affluent private schools — free from state curricula and testing mandates. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 3, 2020

Dear students, educators, and families, Welcome back for the 2020 school year! We are incredibly delighted to have our children and educators back in school again, particularly after such a challenging spring and summer. Second , some of our educators probably will become very ill too. We are so appreciative!

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