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

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? Related: Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. It hasn’t worked, and it will never work — no matter how many experts and how much money we throw at the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. It comes from lots of different sources, sometimes from families, sometimes communities, sometimes from school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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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 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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

Because of the new law, in more than half of the state’s school districts , every teacher made the same salary this year, regardless of years of experience. It is the largest state investment in teacher salaries in Arkansas history, a big deal in a state that ranked 48th in the country for starting pay up until this year.

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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.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs. In 2018, parents demanded that the school lower its graduation requirements.

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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.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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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.

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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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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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

What they did find, however, were pockets of excellent, deep learning in nearly every school they visited, individual teachers who designed and delivered rich, engaging learning experiences for their students in public schools, private schools, schools with excellent resources, and those without.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars.

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Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

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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Elementary School Advocacy Public School Research 145

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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Merits are redeemable for privileges like eating lunch out or credit at the school store. History teacher Tom Halpenny (Boston College) teaches AP world literature but on a recent fall day the class has only 12 students so Halpenny can go around and speak to them individually. In a later seminar, they discuss current events.

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Smithsonian's History Explorer

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The semi-autobiographical graphic novel tells the story of a 12-year-old black boy, Jordan Banks, who experiences culture shock when he enrolls at a private school.

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Private School Cultures 52

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.

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High School K-12 Government Private School 61

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2020

I just taught a high school class the other day, that’s taught by a friend who teaches at a private school, and those students, some of them hadn’t shown up. Will history repeat? I see my students off in their homes, some of them relegated to the basement, often sitting in a comfortable chair or on their bed.

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High School Library Private School Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. “But

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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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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

To understand the uproar that surrounded the school board’s decision to close the West Charlotte middle schools, it helps to know a little bit about the district’s history. In the mid-1960s, less than five percent of black children in Charlotte attended integrated schools. Then, a 1971 Supreme Court decision in Swann v.

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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

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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Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 74

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.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

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.

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