The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later.

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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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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 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. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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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? Research reveals the degree to which these schools fuel the pipeline for some of the most prestigious leadership roles in America.

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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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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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4QM Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

History course that covers 1492-1877. Its a full school year: ten units, 10 -15 lessons per unit. The 4QM team wrote our own narratives for all the Question One lessons, edited primary sources for all the Question Twos, researched data for all the Question Threes, and hashed out all the Question Fours.

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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. Initial research suggests the gamble could pay off. This year, the district expanded the concept to a third of its 82 schools. MESA, Ariz. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. For-profit schools are not included in their methodology.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In other words, it is taking place at the same time that black and Hispanic children have become the majority in the nation’s public schools. But what’s more, a 2016 Stanford study found that poverty is rising faster in predominantly minority schools than in white schools. Black History was added, busing was provided.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School in Elgin, even though both are in Elgin Area School District U-46. 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

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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. Credit: Image provided by Kodie Bates Researchers pointed out problems with the discrepancy model even before its use became prevalent in the U.S.

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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 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. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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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

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

JULY 18, 2016

But like other cities, New Orleans’ private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents’ attitudes toward black and poor folk. 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.

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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

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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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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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. government also acknowledges.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Backpacks hang from the wall in a New Orleans school. 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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The pendulum swings on K-8 versus middle schools. The research goes back and forth, and the districts go back and forth, but they’re not always thinking about how to create the conditions for success.” The research comparing outcomes of students at K-8 and middle schools remains inconclusive. John’s University. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month. 20 percent — Percentage of residents out of work in Holmes County, Mississippi. Gist knows the disconnection comes at grave cost for students.

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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. 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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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

JUNE 11, 2017

Nova is willing to make the sacrifices for UMass Amherst because she believes the giant public research university has the better reputation. Together, they’d spent countless hours discussing essays, aid applications and the differences between state and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Debates over racial segregation in exam schools were already raging around the country before the chaos of the pandemic hit. Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr.

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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. Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Will history repeat? Stephen Smith.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. Studies show that low-income students are more likely to drop-out of high school. Merits are redeemable for privileges like eating lunch out or credit at the school store.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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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. LSU was one of only three schools in Louisiana that offered the major.

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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.

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