The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If White abandonment of the public system impoverished the public schools that served Clarksdale’s African American majority. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. As in many Delta communities, the town’s private school was founded in 1965 —the same year the community’s public schools began desegregation. Board of Education never happened. But that didn’t make the conflict any easier.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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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. But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school.

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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. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Let’s consider for a moment if our egalitarian impulses, however well-intended, have prevented us from pursuing a vision of public education that could be more fruitful…. Fordham Institute.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. It’s been a frustrating experience, working with the Department of Justice,” said Hooks.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

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. But public schools don’t look like the public. And neither private nor public schools are creating the requisite diversity to influence communities for the better.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Dixon has three daughters in the district.

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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. Corey Booker (D-N.J.)

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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. And it resonated with school district leaders, who’d come to believe the model of one teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom to many kids wasn’t working. MESA, Ariz. —

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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. Some in town think schools should use it more often. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

education problem more painful and paralyzing than persistent gaps in educational outcomes between black and brown students and their white peers, many decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools is unconstitutional. There is no U.S

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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. 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 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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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? How long will it take us to stop assuming that every student of color in a public school needs or wants a special intervention, or that any such student who excels is somehow miraculous?

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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. David Spring, a college professor in Washington state who helped to found an organization called Coalition to Protect Our Public Schools, questions AVID’s data.

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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

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. Desperate, Gov. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. No one in her family had ever left home for college. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Lizzie Choi, chief program officer, Summit Public Schools.

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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. Like other flagships across the country, LSU is, by many standards, the best public school in the state. LSU President F.

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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. But we get less per child, and we pay rent.

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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

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. “The No silver bullet.

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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.

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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

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Ninety-eight percent of Greenville’s 5,300 public school students are black and 94 percent live in poverty. They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Resources are scarce; qualified teachers are hard to recruit and retain. Photo: Jacob Carroll.

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