The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? Research reveals the degree to which these schools fuel the pipeline for some of the most prestigious leadership roles in America.

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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. About 700 public campuses received less in state and local appropriations in 2017-18 than in 2009-10, and about 190 private four-year institutions saw the size of their endowments fall relative to their costs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law.

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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.

Pedagogy 103

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. And I knew before I retired from government service that I wanted to devote the next chapter of my life to this issue. Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Basically, private institutions should be free to have affirmative action, but it should be prohibited at public institutions. A public institution — a government institution — must be held much more strictly to “objective” admissions than private. Unequal treatment by government is inescapable.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. But it’s also really solvable,” said Areeba Haider, a research associate for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of enrollment in universities and colleges and men just over 40 percent, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

But like other cities, New Orleans’ private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents’ attitudes toward black and poor folk. Research shows that students who attend diverse schools have higher academic outcomes, and they are more likely to work, learn and live in integrated settings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. And that’s just the average number of applications per student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. 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.”. One county, two districts worlds apart. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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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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. government also acknowledges.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

While there is some fear about a new federal school voucher program or private school tax credits, the likelihood is this will not occur through a wholesale dismantling of ESSA. If significant education budget cuts are in fact implemented, it will make the work of educators and school leaders more difficult.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School in Elgin, even though both are in Elgin Area School District U-46. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. Still, even in districts that don’t systematically spend less on high-poverty schools, overall, inequities remain. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In fact, according to research from New America, the academic programs offered are the most important decision factor for a student’s specific college choice.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Backpacks hang from the wall in a New Orleans school. I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many working-class families in this manufacturing city across the Wabash River from Purdue University cannot afford to send their children to private pre-kindergarten, nor can they rely on government-funded programs — like Head Start and subsidized childcare — which serve a fraction of eligible children.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. Studies show that low-income students are more likely to drop-out of high school. Photo: Courtesy Match Charter Public High School. “I

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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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. Nova is willing to make the sacrifices for UMass Amherst because she believes the giant public research university has the better reputation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

A 2018 report published by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University ranked Indiana second to last in access to state-funded pre-K programs. Until a few years ago, lawmakers pumped most education dollars into K-12 programs that prioritized key school-choice efforts.

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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. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. The students had just researched and drawn murals to illustrate an infamous event that took place a century ago in Bisbee, Arizona. Remember the Wobblies?”

K-12 96

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Meanwhile, their white counterparts attended more affluent public schools or private schools, many of which were created to avoid integration orders and are still referred to as “segregation academies.”. Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later. I just went right on.”.

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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.

Economics 75

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 75

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

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. How can I help you?”

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