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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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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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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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 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. Add in demographic changes, and it’s no surprise that demand is falling for the traditional college experience. They want jobs.

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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

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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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. Some solutions in education are expensive. Take early college high schools, which give students a head start on their college degrees but cost about $3,800 extra per student.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. They’re average.”.

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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 6, 2020

In Florida and Wisconsin, schools have padlocked or sealed drinking fountains to keep kids from using them. Students at a private school in San Rafael, California, are learning in outdoor classrooms created from tree stumps and hay bales. Credit: Jessica Shearer. Credit: Jessica Shearer. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. The schools catered to middle and upper income families; median family income exceeded $114,000 at three of the suburban schools. However, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last June fueled heated debates and raised questions about the distribution of opportunities to attend highly selective education institutions. So why are we unwilling to recognize that great leaders can and do come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the evolving landscape of education, one topic has taken center stage: generative AI. As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before her son started kindergarten, Ashley Meier Barlow realized that she might have to fight for his education. Instead, the educators told Barlow that they wanted her son to attend a classroom across town meant for children who are profoundly impacted by their disabilities. “If

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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. Just as many Americans object to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing. The reform model is known by several different names, including proficiency-based education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. The reason for the rise in segregation in the 1990s before the number of charter schools soared is harder to understand. Supreme Court.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The new students came to Starkville, a diverse district with a mix of 30 percent white and 65 percent black students, from East and West Oktibbeha County Schools, which were almost entirely black. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools? Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

“We do attract a number of families of kids that have special needs because of the environment that we provide and we do attract a number of parents that have had issues at schools, in particular with discipline,” Triplett said. That number is expected to grow as more students are evaluated, according to the school’s COO, Kristine Barker.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

. Boosting education equity should be the starting point for a solution aimed at narrowing the nation’s widening — and alarming — gaps in income, wealth and education. Gaps in income, wealth and education threaten who we are as a nation. There’s good education news out there, if you know where to look for it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Department of Education. Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. For that reason, it has traditionally benefited students from higher-income families. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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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

MAY 21, 2018

Restrictions on some designs, shorts, dyed hair and other asinine rules governing what students can wear give educators permission to harass, discriminate and pull students out of class when they slip up. Higher Education. Related: Any educational reform that ignores segregation is doomed to failure. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

There is no excuse for the continued absence of veterans at America’s top schools. Top private schools are a great value. The education and networks they offer are second to none, and for veterans, the majority are actually less expensive than comparable public institutions. Now is a great time to apply.

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Maitri Learning

JULY 13, 2024

This series brings a wealth of knowledge and innovative insights to the Maitri Learning community, showcasing new and creative ways to expand the use of our educational tools. She’ll be guiding us through practical ways to use Maitri Learning products in lots of different educational settings. Why a Dyslexia Specialist?

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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? In 2002, the nation’s highest court also considered a challenge to a private-school scholarship program. Constitution even though some families sent their children to religious schools. Montana Department of Revenue.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

When campuses suddenly began shutting down last March, school administrators scrambled to figure out how they could educate Texas’ 5.4 It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district. Other virtual schools are often run through for-profit vendors and welcome any Texas-based student.

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