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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OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. The year is 1964.

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MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. There was nothing like this.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Another analysis shows that this drop accounts for nearly a third of the total reduction in public school enrollment across 33 states. Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.” Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. Unlike public school districts, universities are not legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to identify students with disabilities or cover evaluation costs. I just needed more time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said. It proved to be an academic lifeline. McWilliams said she felt convinced that God was answering her prayers.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

The large number of students returning to in-person classes — at West Middle about 76 percent of students are back — is a testament to families’ reliance on the city’s schools, and their trust in the public school system. (In A tutor hired by his mother, Mercedes Powell, helped fill in any gaps.

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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 5, 2016

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. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools. The new Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont., After winter break, the school enrolled enough new kindergartners to require the hiring of a fifth kindergarten teacher. opened in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

Students enrolled in MTDA online credit recovery courses are often the students who need the most support when it comes to graduating from high school. Some have poor attendance records or have a history of not completing class assignments on time. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Only 3 percent of parents, in another Rand survey conducted this July , said they would send their youngest school-age child to full-time virtual school if the pandemic were over. “We For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m. Heather Schwartz, co-author of Rand surveys on virtual learning. “We and lasts until 3 p.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

But is it possible there’s something worth saving from what many came to see as a deeply flawed federal approach to public schools? ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. Her organization estimates that now 6 to 10 percent of public school districts across the United States are piloting or planning competency-based approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. There are 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. At others, as few as one in 100 Pell Grant recipients had earned a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. Legislators in Mississippi say they’re making hard choices when it comes to schools. Toney used new books.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. And while struggling students still get extra academic help, such tutoring has been scaled back.

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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. She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Its not their fault, she says, or their parents or even the schools fault.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. This could be a win-win.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Educators have also cited school violence and staffing shortages.And some parents of children with special needs are suing school systems for failing to provide services to their children when schools were closed. Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. We will be watching closely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While the county is about 16 percent white and 82 percent black, the public schools are nearly all black. Fewer than 30 white students are enrolled in the entire district, a steep decline from the fall of 1966, when about 6,000 black students and 1,000 white students attended the county’s schools. She was named “Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher. Only 7 percent of teachers identify as Black.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan. Bracey Harris.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools. There are also no charter schools in Kentucky, which have split public school resources elsewhere.

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