The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school. Match has worked with school districts in Chicago and Lawrence, Massachusetts to replicate its tutoring model, while partnering informally with other charter networks to build tutoring programs. So is punctuality.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Still, society’s dominant narrative is one of poor blacks whom government and other institutions must help to overcome their situation, which is in large part inextricable from the lack of equity and access that still plagues America’s minority communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

at a time when more merit aid from universities, along with private programs and government aid, is going to wealthy students with high grade-point averages and entrance test scores. Together, they’d spent countless hours discussing essays, aid applications and the differences between state and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

He has long taken issue with the “broken” way our country finances its schools: primarily with local property taxes that unfairly advantage students from wealthy communities, which are often also majority white because of the U.S.’s s long history of segregation and racist policies. Dixon has three daughters in the district. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. — The previous few months had witnessed a handful of small endings, and now, with the school year drawing to a close, these events were piling up quickly. In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. 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. A sign made out of butcher paper was left in his yard.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing. The students are adjusting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Attend student government meetings. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For fellow senior Raoul Sandoval, similar warnings came from family members who lived and worked in the school’s Lower West Side, Pilsen neighborhood. Knowing that he had always excelled academically, they urged him to apply for a scholarship to a private school instead. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. This story also appeared in NBC News. Colleges in Crisis.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

While we rubbernecked at the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have undoubtedly caused trauma to children separated from their families, last week, the White House released a 132-page proposal to restructure the federal government. Government bureaucracies that grow over time can be anathema to innovation and efficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

What happened next in Greenville, a de-evolution of sorts, is a lesson for another Mississippi town, Cleveland, now wrestling with a federal court order to merge its historically black and white schools — and a warning siren for the rest of the nation. Black History was added, busing was provided. Sacrificing Coleman High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements. As the country’s principal, King also understands we must be intentional in efforts to create diverse schools. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

She went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in history and then her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a focus on English language arts. One of those schools, the University of Pennsylvania, offered González Camarena a full scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Aside from the obvious differences in choice between the expansion of education service providers and a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices and her body, DeVos clearly needs to learn that the Republican understanding of words like choice , freedom , liberty differs significantly for black people with our history of slavery.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Black male matriculates are sprinkled throughout Harvard’s history , but the overwhelming majority of its graduates have been white men. Kennedy believed that when he introduced the concept of affirmative action in 1961 in the context of government contracts. Related: A private school resets its tuition. President John F.

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Sapiens

MARCH 7, 2024

Israel’s war on Gaza that erupted in 2023 continues a long history of systemic displacement of Palestinians. HISTORIES OF DISPLACEMENT In October 2023, less than a week after Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Intelligence Ministry drafted a wartime proposal to “transfer” the entire population of Gaza—2.3

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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. School choice also raises larger questions about why the government funds education at all.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It sounds absurd, given that President-elect Trump just ran the most divisive campaign in modern history and will likely govern as if he won in a landslide. The Danger Is Now Real ,” they write, and expect “a new era of federal hostility toward public schools.” million children across 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for parents in private and religious schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

By opening up hiring to teacher-candidates who are still working on earning their bachelor’s degrees, Dacey reasons that schools will have a wider pool of candidates to choose from. The context of this policy change is significant.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The escalating fight over money will play out in a quickly shifting education landscape, as the will to continue to invest in chronically failing schools like Bayard has dwindled on the federal level and school choice advocates like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos push alternatives to the public system.

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