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. Addressing the Root Problem Arizona isn’t alone in its scramble to find teachers ahead of the fall return to school.

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Charter School K-12 Public School Private School 107

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating. What does gatekeeping comfort and movement achieve?

Public School 113

Public School K-12 Pedagogy Private School 113

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Courtesy of the Askew family. FLAGSTAFF, AZ. — Maybe teaching.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Public-school Failures. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t.

Private School 99

Private School Elementary School Advocacy Public School 99

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.

Private School 111

Private School History High School Education Policy 111

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. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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High School K-12 Private School Government 69

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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Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. 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.

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High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.

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Public School Economics Private School High School 105

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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Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

School districts rely heavily on the revenue that comes from local property taxes, creating funding disparities between rich and poor districts. Since race and income are highly correlated due to the pervasive discrimination that has blighted this nation’s history, whiter districts receive more money than majority-minority districts.

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Education Charter School Private School History 121

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. I would argue the tax breaks private school families receive in Louisiana is the real voucher program.

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Charter School Private School American History Public School 75

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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Elementary School Charter School Library Private School 93

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.

Charter School 93

Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 93

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it? As schools reopen this fall, educators across the nation are considering the kinds of conversations they want to have with young people about recent events and the historical misunderstandings and mistrust that have led to them.

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Private School Cultures Government History 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A federal judge fully released the district from that order in June, and just weeks before the school year started, Beard and the rest of the board unanimously approved a voluntary plan to keep the district’s schools desegregated and ensure that students of color have equal opportunities to graduate and succeed beyond high school.

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Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

She takes her seat as the head of the school system — an appointment by New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond — in July. from the University of New Orleans and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University, is the first black person in the history of the Archdiocese to fill this role. Houston, who holds a Ph.D.

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Private School Public School High School History 64

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. Vanessa Everhart, an eighth-grader at Ridgeview, snapped hers open on a recent afternoon to reveal a pile of papers — tutorial request forms, highlighted history readings, a daily calendar.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Together, they’d spent countless hours discussing essays, aid applications and the differences between state and private schools. And a total of eight Match students had been accepted to Northeastern University , the most in Match history. Class valedictorian Humberto Rojas has a full ride and will live on campus.

High School 91

High School Tutoring Charter School Private School 91

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.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 88

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. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Sahni, the author, also expressed skepticism about private takeovers during a talk she gave about her book before a packed crowd in Manhattan in October; she believes they have failed to deliver and lost the faith of communities. No one will cheat you.”.

Heritage 87

Heritage Government Economics High School 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plessy Community School. The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. The school wasn’t perfect.

Economics 81

Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Private providers are one of the program’s fundamental building blocks, but many of them say that surviving within the framework of city-mandated expectations, guidelines and funding is tough, even though the city has put in place numerous incentives and supports. ” Related: Quality of pre-K varies in New York, data shows.

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Public School Heritage Artifacts Private School 66

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

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Alma White, for whom the school was named, was a notorious racist and xenophobe with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. For nearly 50 years, the small private school has been led by the Grosses, a white family whose mission was to educate K-12 students from a Christian worldview. Yet churches are still segregated.

Private School 126

Private School K-12 Economics Public School 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When Taylor graduated from Greenville High School in 1989, there were still enough white students, barely, to fill the mandated balance for positions of responsibility. When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Sacrificing Coleman High School.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

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.

Private School 145

Private School Government Museum Charter School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

Both Manual students have a history of confronting authority: They appeared before the Kentucky state legislature in February to testify against a bill on history instruction that the students said would whitewash the past, deny free speech and erase marginalized people. A haunting feeling overcame me.

High School 98

High School K-12 Civics History 98

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.

Geography 101

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

The organization’s polling has found that three-quarters of parents support the idea of changing K-12 U.S. history curriculums to include more diverse figures and perspectives; yet those who oppose such initiatives continue to receive the biggest microphones, despite being in the minority.

Advocacy 128

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

Walk into any K-5 classroom in Illinois’ Rockford Public Schools and there’s one thing you’re guaranteed to see: kids playing with Legos. This school year, teachers are using Legos to help kids learn concepts from all subject areas, including literacy, history and science.

Private School 139

Private School Educational Technology Public School Critical Thinking 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

She likes his calls to dramatically increase funding for education, including raising teacher pay, directing an additional $300 million to school districts , and expanding the state’s public pre-K program. Tate Reeves, for opposing a 2015 school funding initiative that would have increased money for education.

Charter School 111

Charter School Government Private School History 111

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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Social Justice Advocacy Public School Private School 96