The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. Meanwhile, secondary school enrollment numbers were shrinking, while elementary enrollments were exploding, due to the postwar baby boom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

“So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. That same year, Starkville Academy, a private school called a segregation academy by some in the area, took in its first students, most of them white. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. The same court ordered Longview to integrate both its faculty and students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. “But

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. Elementary school populations were merged, T.L. Black History was added, busing was provided.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They’re familiar rituals in rural communities throughout the state, where public schools can play an outsized role, serving as social and cultural hubs, major employers and sources of collective pride and community identity. “I Related: Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Brian Kemp is trying again this year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report A “watch for children” sign outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. “The juggle is real,” said Maranda Seawood, a student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. So it’s a juggle.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Taheem Fennel poses for a picture with his mom and stepdad after his fifth-grade graduation ceremony at Bancroft Elementary School. The staff at Bancroft Elementary School suggested counseling, and his mother eagerly accepted the help. Photo: Nichole Dobo / The Hechinger Report. WILMINGTON, Del. He had angry outbursts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

On March 10, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dealt a blow to Walterss plans: It issued a temporary stay prohibiting the states department of education from purchasing 55,000 Bibles with certain characteristics and from buying Bible-infused lessons and material for elementary schools. It protects the religious freedom of students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Yet six decades after Brown, federal judges and officials rarely check to see if districts are obeying their orders to desegregate—and in many cases, schools in districts with a history of discrimination against black children have actually grown more segregated under federal supervision. But in the end, that didn’t mean much.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition.

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