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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
House Republicans recently returned to one of their favorite targets for spending cuts: the country’s most vulnerable youth and the schools that serve them. Their plan would represent a major setback to efforts to achieve racial equity in our nation’s public schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2020
This is the demographic of parents with the widest mismatch between their stated ideals and their actions when it comes to public school choice. This paradox is too often rationalized in terms of test scores and shared perceptions of schools that enroll many students of color and have even slightly lower test scores.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 5, 2019
As a former public school parent and a white woman with a white son who performs well on the metrics that get students into the most selective public schools, I know the peer pressure that white parents feel to get their children into these high-status schools.
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 25, 2023
It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 25, 2016
A similar gap, though less stark, exists in schools nationwide. According to Ingersoll, about 44 percent of students and 17 percent of teachers in American public schools are minorities (up from 27 and 12 percent respectively in 1987-88). Just over 21 percent of students are Hispanic, compared to 7.8
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