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? and that “society would be better if we evolved past the ’traditional’ leader (e.g., But those outcomes are not fixed.

Leadership 126

Leadership Government Private School Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

High School 145

High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

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. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

Tradition 137

Tradition Public School Research Psychology 137

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. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

Charter School 95

Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 95

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.

Charter School 112

Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Educating our nation’s leaders, these schools should no longer deprive their students of the opportunity to appreciate veterans as fellow students, as classmates not unlike themselves, and to hear firsthand and learn from their experiences in uniformed national service. Top private schools are a great value. Armed Forces.

Private School 75

Private School Civics Leadership Government 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis. One county, two districts worlds apart.

Private School 111

Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. They are too poor — their parents want them to work,’’ Ballani said, while showing a visitor in and out of dusty classrooms at his school, GSSS Damodora, where students dressed in powder-blue uniforms sat on the floor awaiting instruction.

Heritage 86

Heritage Government Economics High School 86

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. They also normalize cisgender and traditional roles and views. They help distinguish one school from another — a kind of branding.

Teaching 87

Teaching Charter School Middle School Public School 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. Early decision is typically offered by more selective institutions and locks in applicants who are accepted, even before they see how much financial aid they’ll get.

Tutoring 144

Tutoring High School Private School Economics 144

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.

Education 111

Education Charter School Private School Economics 111

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

Education 104

Education Private School Educational Technology Government 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

Charter School 110

Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 110

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.

Private School 73

Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

High School 90

High School Tutoring Charter School Private School 90

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. Elsewhere in the U.S.,

Tutoring 111

Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 111

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

Teaching 52

Teaching Civics American History Library 52

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 strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature.

K-12 99

K-12 Public School History Tutoring 99

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The entire system — the only public school system in America made up almost entirely of charter schools — had a wake-up call in 2010, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Louisiana Department of Education over New Orleans charter schools’ treatment of students with disabilities. There aren’t other options,” he said.

Charter School 84

Charter School Education Government Tradition 84

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.

Charter School 100

Charter School Leadership Library Private School 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Halley Potter, who studies potential policy solutions for addressing educational inequality, is a fellow at The Century Foundation, a left-leaning think tank based in New York, and a member of the governing board of the National Coalition of Diverse Charter Schools. He blames himself, in part, for feeding into that belief.

Charter School 82

Charter School Pedagogy K-12 Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

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 81

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Protesters demands for an end to systemic racism must include demands for an end to state support of private schools that, by gobbling up scarce financial resources, deprive Black and Brown children of a quality public education and deprive all children the benefits of diversity and inclusion. On June 30, the U.S.

Private School 145

Private School Public School Charter School Tradition 145

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.

Charter School 255

Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 255

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

Advocacy 141

Advocacy Public School Charter School Tradition 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language.

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits. Students complain of being kept on campus when they could be attending neighborhood schools. And government oversight is lacking. Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant.

Education 110

Education Charter School Public School Private School 110

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. All the traditional method does is sort students.

Geography 100

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. It turns out that other people of varying backgrounds have much to offer a democracy. President John F.

Economics 83

Economics Private School History Government 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The Restart program relies on the premise that schools know what is best for their students and should be granted flexibility to make changes. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. My own organization has its own structures and traditions that I have to sweep away,” he said.

Elementary School 99

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 99

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. Related: San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage.

Charter School 47

Charter School K-12 Elementary School Economics 47

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. In northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville Public Schools families and staff enjoyed a glimpse of normalcy this spring. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day.

Oral History 120

Oral History History High School Public School 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2025

The data collection was nearly finished and ready to be released to the public, but in February, Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated the contract for this data collection, which is part of the National Household Education Survey, along with 88 other education contracts. Together, more than 5 percent of U.S.

Government 136

Government Private School Research Education Policy 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are public schools because they are funded through tax revenues.

Public School 108

Public School Tradition Charter School Education 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Batchelor and another former school board member, Bret Gist, recalled hearing from longtime residents who were enrolling their children in private schools or leaving Russellville because they didn’t want their kids to be “the minority.” But a soccer program Grimes started has received perhaps the biggest response.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145