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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

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 new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

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But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. They’re average.”.

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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

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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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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

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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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OPINION: Post-affirmative action, let’s look past our obsession with the Ivy Leagues and other elite schools

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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? and that “society would be better if we evolved past the ’traditional’ leader (e.g., male, white, older, etc.).”

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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation

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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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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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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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