The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. White parents still prefer Clarendon Hall, one of many rural private schools in the South opened in the desegregation era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Later, I became a professional writer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

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. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. He admired Tulane’s reputation — the New Orleans private school is the highest-ranked Louisiana university on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

School officials tout the arts-based curriculum and the joy they say it brings students, but acknowledge that side-lining test preparation has caused test scores to suffer and lowered the performance grades the school receives from the state education department. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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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

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. My daughter is going to a private school this year. Before the pandemic, it was not high on my list; I was going to send her to public school. Credit: Image provided by Richmond Public Schools. I just don’t.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A teacher in training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

For four years, opponents of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos deplored her private school priorities, so it was hardly expected she’d be hailed as a hero for a sudden epiphany disassociating herself from President Donald Trump and resigning. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images. Pringle struck an optimistic note, though. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

It’s 2018 now, yet we’re still dealing with court desegregation orders from the ’50s and ’60s; with charter school advocates who proudly accept that they’re more segregated than their traditional school peers; and a judicial nominee who wouldn’t say if she agreed with 1954 Brown decision. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Twelve miles south of Western Middle, at Stuart Academy, another middle school in Louisville, eighth grade math teacher Louis Redd was beginning to grasp how much his students were struggling. Amia, a St. Credit: Bianca Bagnarelli / for NBC News.

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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. public education. Civil-rights activists know better.

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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

JUNE 26, 2018

However, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings. Children need to view themselves as full human beings, as citizens even, something a good liberal arts foundation provides. Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services).

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. schools becomes more pronounced in many places, and as hate crimes against minorities increase in schools and communities and the U.S.

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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. So, religious schools could not receive federal aid to supplement salaries—but might receive it to construct buildings or buy textbooks. ” Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 June.

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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. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. He marched in an elementary school graduation ceremony in June 2018, sporting a blue polyester robe while his mom and stepdad clapped and took pictures. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

Local school administrators and teachers tend to think of course-based choice as comparable to throwing a grenade into their buildings. Wealthy families can choose to live in the best school districts and send their kids to the best public or private schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

On whether or not we’re going to restore fundamental human decency to our nation. Xenophobia, nationalism, and the denial of the humanity of others – particularly Black and Brown people – around the globe. Global warming and the denial of human-accelerated climate change (do you like hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires?).

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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. He has also warned schools that, if reelected, he would cut or eliminate federal funding if teachers or school employees suggest “to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Paula Howard teaches in a Republican stronghold in north Mississippi, along the Tennessee border. Bartlett, a high school history teacher, did a double take, too. At least in recent history you need more than that.” Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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