ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. It was especially frustrating, considering she had spent five years helping teachers weave edtech into their lesson plans and had earned a doctorate in education technology before returning to teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Every one of them is already happening somewhere — often in specialized or private schools. For more than a century, Montessori schools have worked to connect students’ interests with classroom learning. Most schools across the United States use some form of education technology.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. 2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

While the quality of education offered at private colleges is unsurpassed, many students end up at large state schools solely because they want to pursue a degree that the smaller private schools don’t offer. Meanwhile, the construct of the four-year college experience being “essential” is coming under scrutiny.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. It is educators themselves reaching out for our help.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Especially in states that provide extra public funds to support dual enrollment, it’s good for school districts and public schools, proponents argue, since they can use those programs as a selling point for attracting families and students who might otherwise look to private schools, or public schools elsewhere.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

They tried a private school, but found that Isaiah struggled there. He felt alienated, she says, because the school was being singled out for punishment. The school also seemed full of rich kids. So now, Isaiah is back in public school for ninth grade. Local homeschool groups weren’t very diverse, she says.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

But she suspected that a private school or public school outside of Kansas might work well for her. “I really did not know where I stood academically,” she says. Hunsucker’s teachers and guidance counselors encouraged students to think only about in-state colleges, she recalls.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In fact, Malkin recently co-wrote a book about how to help young students along the path, called “ A Guide to Academic Research for High School Students. ” The hope, experts say, is that teaching research skills becomes a more mainstream affair, making its way into high schools and undergraduate courses outside of elite private schools.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We understand that many schools around the world will be taking substantial steps to utilize this new technology, not just in handwritten digital note-taking but from bringing generative AI on board as a deputy head to recruiting directors of artificial intelligence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

He endured press scrutiny for sending his own children to private school and asking for a monthly stipend to remain in his home instead of moving to the Brooklyn Heights brownstone the board had purchased for its revolving-door cast of chancellors. Related: A new non-profit takes aim at education pricing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Charlotte In Charlotte, North Carolina, the school districts have been seeing a decline in white residents with slight increase in the proportion of Hispanic, Black and Asian residents. Source: American Community Survey. Visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our school district was trying to ramp up to get students back in school, and my youngest really needed to be back in school. My two older kids, who were in private school, had been back since the fall [of 2020], and the public schools weren't going to be opening back up until mid-March [of 2021].

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston. “We But when it comes to having a chat with parents, these same teachers may get so nervous they avoid the interactions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

Jay Inslee ordered the closure of all public and private schools through at least late April. Nearly half of those students rely on schools for subsidized meals, leaving districts little time to make contingency plans to deliver food to families who needed it and prioritize child care for essential workers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

It’s inspired by Deep Springs College, a tiny, two-year, private school in California founded a century ago by banking and power-company magnate L.L. In the works for nearly a decade , Outer Coast’s model is intended to allow students to earn an associate degree and then transfer to a four-year institution to earn a bachelor’s degree.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No student should have an expected family contribution that dwarfs the cost of attendance at even the most expensive of private schools. At the very least, schools and scholarship committees need to be more lenient when considering edge cases.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

While some families say that their kids are safer, or more comfortable, or better able to learn outside of the public and private school systems, there are also dangers associated with this largely unregulated form of teaching, such as children being abused out of sight.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. Even some of personalized learning’s biggest backers admit that it’s easy to get it wrong.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Researchers found that adults generally support public funding staying in public schools — even if a majority of respondents also think private school students learn more. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

I’ve been very strongly influenced by the fact that this is incredibly common practice in private schools. I mean, I got the data for one — I have to keep it anonymous — but one very well-known private school in D.C., Oh interesting. Really, really common. and 30 percent of their boys were old for their year.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2023

Montessori is often associated with wealthy families at private schools, but there are programs aimed at low-income children. “It The focus is typically on allowing students to learn through experience rather than direct instruction and letting students choose their activities. It provides a good structure.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In Livingston's experience, that tends to be people who went to the same private schools and selective universities as the founders. Companies that lack a leader with an education background or fail to get educators’ perspectives into the product often fail, he says—or get acquired by another company that goes on to fail later.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2024

When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pandemic, Ashley Jochim never imagined that she was preparing her daughter for failure. Tough Choices Advocates argue that school choice delivers education attuned to family needs. At first, she did.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

This school year, teachers are using Legos to help kids learn concepts from all subject areas, including literacy, history and science. Just to talk about [STEM concepts] abstractly is difficult at that level,” said Susan Uram, educational technology coordinator for Rockford Public Schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

“Completely by luck, I came across a blog of undocumented students who were sharing their [college] experiences anonymously online,” he recalls, “and I applied to three private schools because I heard stories of undocumented students at those institutions.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

The Office of Educational Technology is without leadership, for instance. Sarah Garland: Isn’t that the goal though, for the education department to be less intrusive than before? Lawmakers have instead promised to study how to best hold these private schools accountable and come back with a new bill next year.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

In one widely reported case, a private school in South Carolina was forced to cancel its Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day after the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal offices backed out of the event. Women Who Code was revived in March after being acquired by Lesbians Who Tech.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

Families should be able to rate not only their online courses but how their local schools and mentors support those courses. Related: Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed. America’s current system of K-12 educational choice is primarily based on wealth.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools.

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