The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A tiny private-school network founded by the former head of personalization at Google is extending its reach to three new schools. Those schools opened as planned.). Related: Facebook founder and others invest $100 million in a private school model they hope can take root in the public system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2013

For this post I decided to turn to Trish Rubin , my education branding expert whose work and insight I highlight in Chapter 7 of my book. Below are her thoughts on the importance of branding in education. Bringing the process of BrandED thinking into the school''s plan transforms and energizes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

One idea that has taken hold in many districts: repurposing these empty school buildings into early care and education centers. Its a natural fit, says Aaron Loewenberg, a senior policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at New America, a think tank. It can be a win-win if done right, says Loewenberg.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

There is no one roadmap for success after high school, and schools should consider structuring curriculum and career services to reflect that. Educators do a disservice to students by implying that college bestows the only path toward financial independence and employment. What jobs are available where you want to live?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

rollbacks of educators’ collective bargaining rights. public disparagement of educators, teacher preparation programs, and colleges of education. scripted lessons, lockstep behavior management techniques, and other attempts to ‘teacher-proof’ the education of children. underfunding of public schools. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you live in Arizona, school choice may be coming to your neighborhood soon. As someone who has had more school choice than I know what to do with, I can tell you what may feel like a shocking surprise: Private schools have the power to choose, not parents. I took him out of public school in 4th grade.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

Still, there’s a tendency for people to remove some of the nuance when talking about the uptick in homeschooling and microschools, Angela Watson, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, told EdSurge in May. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

million — number of public and private school students stuck at home during the pandemic. million public and private school students stuck at home. million public and private school students stuck at home. Until the coronavirus happened. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For decades, parents like us have witnessed how our children were not successfully taught to read or write within education systems using curriculums written and supported by signers of the Nov. We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. 18 letter to the editor.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? Related: What if public schools never reopen? What if we can’t change at scale the distribution of academic outcomes among disparate groups of students?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. Fellowship graduates are consistently in demand by school systems in Maryland and beyond.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. It connects to long-standing inequalities in the education system: Anytime theres an increase in learning diversity, our system segregates, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

When it comes to education spending, middle-income Americans typically don’t put their money where their mouth is. How often do we hear politicians and parents wax poetic about education being the great equalizer? It’s impossible for education to be an equalizer if budgets don’t meet every kid’s needs. It’s a long time coming.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades.

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ShortCutsTV

JUNE 9, 2024

1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and began a process of modernising conservatism, under both Conservative and Labour governments, that still, nearly 50 years later, exerts a vice-like grip on primary, secondary and, increasingly tertiary (..)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. She says she joined the faculty because she was intrigued by the opportunity to be part of an education institution “that is actively working to put back those things that were taken from our people for so many decades.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yet if we broaden our focus, there are myriad more impactful ways to promote educational equity than adjusting the admissions practices of elite colleges. Widespread improvements in educational equity and economic mobility will happen only when minority-serving and broad-access institutions receive our respect and support.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Douglas County Schools as a victory over school districts in the perpetual struggle concerning the rights of students with disabilities. Central to the case was question of whether an Individualized Education Program is adequate. Related: High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. Up for debate now is what the broader effects of the ruling might be, as well as its impact on public school funding. Credit: Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. It simply accelerated a problem for higher education that already existed. Small colleges tend to offer fewer majors than large universities do.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

district court judge determined the school system had “knowingly assigned” students to schools by race and ordered it to desegregate based on the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional. Families and officials have also worked together to educate realtors.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Higher Education. But black and white students there are still learning in classrooms that often look like Brown vs. Board of Education never happened. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Schools will be forced to close or cut corners on quality; inequality will soar as parents with means find and fund alternatives to public schools — paying private school tuition or home schooling — while families who already struggle to get access to a quality school will be stuck in a flailing public education system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

While some students thrived during the coronavirus-inspired spring of remote learning, educators, parents and students themselves have reported frighteningly low engagement. While there are other hubs for self-directed learning, Thigpen’s institute will be rare in focusing on the model as a way to increase educational equity.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I share this story not to encourage people to adopt African names, but because learners and educators should not have to attend graduate school to learn truths about pre-colonial Africa and American history. A lot of her work is, and this is the latest demonstration of her contributions to education. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In New York, where I live, the city spends upwards of $300 million a year in taxpayer funds on private school tuition for children with disabilities. But two recent academic papers, synthesizing dozens of reading studies, are raising questions about the effectiveness of these expensive education policies.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Kaufman said some states do provide good guidance for educators, citing Louisiana, Tennessee and Nebraska as some examples.

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