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. He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis. The 1969 desegregation order had another effect.

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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 In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas.

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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. CITTA has experience building both a hospital and a school in Juanga, a village in India, which now has 360 students from kindergarten through 10 th grade. The private schools are not necessarily better,’’ Sahni said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. The students are adjusting.

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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. 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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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

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. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

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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. This approach is dynamic.

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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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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. So already it would be difficult.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

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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 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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. psychology class.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I came to this country at a very young age, but I still [had] very traditional Mexican parents. Our high school definitely brought light to [the emotional and social needs of students] the first two weeks. I just don’t.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. On the ACT, they score above the public school average but below that for private schools.

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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. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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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. All the traditional method does is sort students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

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. They worry that Rodrigues is harnessing the voices of parents to sow dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, rather than to improve them.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Would-be women lawyers had to wait until 1950 to gain a chance at admission to the prestigious Harvard Law School. Black male matriculates are sprinkled throughout Harvard’s history , but the overwhelming majority of its graduates have been white men. Related: A private school resets its tuition. President John F.

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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. In 1879 the Court stood by the centuries-old understanding of marriage , ruling that religious freedom was bounded by basic legal traditions embodied in the common law.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In spite of the long-standing history of white aggression against predominately Black schools and neighborhoods, people wrongly use passive language about students being trapped in failing schools as if we don’t know the source of inequality: discriminatory policies. Related: Defund the private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. Scenario #1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President-Elect Trump’s plan to use $20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. One night, my senior year of high school, I found myself on campus late without a ride home. Related: What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge ? Those facts often put me in awkward situations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The program would have allowed any Texas student to use public money to offset the cost of private-school tuition, but skeptical lawmakers worried the plan would divert dollars from public schools, tightening district budgets without a proportionate reduction in costs. Brian Kemp is trying again this year. Republican state Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden made increasing school funding central to his new education platform. Bernie Sanders has proposed tripling Title I funding for low-income schools. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Some of the existing rural charters have been started by communities that lost their schools to consolidation. Rural charters like Campbell’s, started in part to compete with traditional public schools appear to be less common, and they are certainly more controversial.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2017

But even those who support parental school choice have critiqued the move, predicting long-term consequences if he (or she) becomes the face of the movement. Deborah McGriff had worked out with Black community leaders to allow MPS students to attend some of those same private schools that would end up being the first to participate in MPCP.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Her daughter, 12, and two sons, 11 and 10, started school, and Williams got a job in medical billing in Jasper, 30 minutes from Birmingham. The plan was for her children to follow in another longtime neighborhood tradition. But if the white parents in Gardendale get their way, that 46-year-old tradition may come to an end.

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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. His administration made it possible for parents to use their children’s 529 college savings plan to pay for up to $10,000 annually in private school tuition. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Representatives from teacher groups like the Mississippi Association of Educators and the Mississippi Professional Educators say some members are also frustrated with how Reeves sought to increase funding for a program subsidizing private school education for children with special needs last year.

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