Human Rights Humanities Private School 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
If you live in Arizona, school choice may be coming to your neighborhood soon. As someone who has had more school choice than I know what to do with, I can tell you what may feel like a shocking surprise: Private schools have the power to choose, not parents. What privatizers call choice does not really exist.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2022
The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. Up for debate now is what the broader effects of the ruling might be, as well as its impact on public school funding. Credit: Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 2, 2017
Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Should a private school principal condone inflated grades? As a response to Ada’s dilemma, the writer imagines appropriate alternative schooling that will allow Ada to heal and thrive.
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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 8, 2021
For four years, opponents of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos deplored her private school priorities, so it was hardly expected she’d be hailed as a hero for a sudden epiphany disassociating herself from President Donald Trump and resigning. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 6, 2022
Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.
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