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JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. The structured program and veteran staff appealed to Kimberlin, as did the faith-based instruction, he said, sitting in the school’s bright lobby one recent morning after dropping his kids at their classroom.

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MAY 2, 2018

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. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds.

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MAY 11, 2020

Then, recognizing that every learner brings a unique set of skills, talents, interests and needs to their education, we must give educators and students the tools to build unique learning pathways that develop the learner’s academic, human and technical skills. These ideas aren’t crazy.

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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 1, 2018

While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it. Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools. Leave this field empty if you're human: The depth and quality of this model’s coursework will be the same as that of the first. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

White parents still prefer Clarendon Hall, one of many rural private schools in the South opened in the desegregation era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This means dual school systems still operate today in a town of fewer than 1,000 people. This reality isn’t adequate or even humane for anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Jackson says a coalition of Reynolds allies took over the school board in 2005. In December of 2006, the school board called a special meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Transportation is also a workforce issue. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Sam Gordon, a trained pre-K classroom observer, rates the teacher-student interactions at St. Joan of Arc School in New Orleans. All toddler and pre-K classrooms in the state that receive any public money are observed at least twice a year to determine their educational quality. Sam Gordon, pre-K classroom observer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Kristin Rademaker, an instructional facilitator at the middle school and a science consultant, said that over the years she has heard kids speculate on the safety of vaccines and even debate each other on the topic. Distancing the science of vaccination from its use in people helps even skeptical students understand the science.

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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. public education. Civil-rights activists know better.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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MAY 21, 2018

In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform; 65 percent regulate the length of skirts; 58 percent forbid tank tops; 42 percent ban tights and/or leggings; and 45 percent require students to wear belts, according to the findings of the report, which was published by the National Women’s Law Center.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

When Kali gets calls from school about Langston’s behavior, she said, the focus isn’t your kid is in trouble but rather how can we help? Instead of them being penalized for being little humans, they’re going to be given coping skills and mechanisms to help them be little humans,” Kali said. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “I was being put in classes that were way too easy for me. A week before the case was set to go to court, the district agreed to settle and pay for Nelson to finish up his high school career at a private school 20 miles away for students with learning disabilities. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 22, 2019

In the predawn hours, around a curve, the community’s high school, a modern brick and glass edifice, beams out of the darkness. For the small, unincorporated community of 6,000 just north of Ann Arbor, the 12-year old building is a crown jewel — one that’s all the more precious given how close it came to slipping away.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system. Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. College is free.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Activities like this one have taken on a near-ritualistic quality at Groves’ school, Washington-Lee Elementary, which serves a high-poverty student body in southern Appalachia. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plessy Community School. The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. The school wasn’t perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: They also recommend not turning your back to him to avoid a hair yanking, which could be difficult in a classroom full of students. Between his stints at Pinecrest, Hynes and homebound schooling, the 14-year-old has had a challenging couple of years. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this required 12-week “Introduction to Mindfulness” course taught by Worthen, a full-time mindfulness instructor, students at the private boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, will learn how to develop awareness of their thoughts and body sensations, sit with difficult emotions and direct their attention to the present moment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In Pennsylvania, lawyers say, many of the residentials are regulated like private schools, which is to say, hardly at all. When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We just feel our kids need to be with us more. Too many of them, the experiences they have outside of school aren’t as positive as what we wish,” Harrison said. “My Related: This country spends billions on private schools — and has a terrible learning gap between poor and wealthy. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

She blamed his school, and the investigators from the state’s child welfare agency they’d sent to her door. Until last fall, Banks had only good things to say about her children’s school. She looked into private schools before deciding they were too expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

A central theme of both books is public school desegregation, a cause that Meredith risked his life to achieve in Mississippi. While doing this, I sent my son to intensely segregated New York City schools. They were private schools. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. Cartagena teaches at four different Scott County schools, each with smaller Hispanic populations than Morton Elementary. Hang 26 live birds per minute for slaughter.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Related: Why one school district tried something new — even though people were happy with the status quo. At Hawken School , a private school in Cleveland, Ohio, students in the entrepreneurship program engage real problems from real companies, later working to identify problems of their own to tackle.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Paula Howard teaches in a Republican stronghold in north Mississippi, along the Tennessee border. She likes his calls to dramatically increase funding for education, including raising teacher pay, directing an additional $300 million to school districts , and expanding the state’s public pre-K program.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Taheem Fennel poses for a picture with his mom and stepdad after his fifth-grade graduation ceremony at Bancroft Elementary School. Taheem Fennell, 12, loves to ride his bike. Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. Taheem Fennel, 12. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. Families can choose any school, public or private: Taxpayer money follows the student. Schools] can follow the law and do it poorly.”. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

However, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings. Children need to view themselves as full human beings, as citizens even, something a good liberal arts foundation provides. Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

And it would be, P, C, K, something, no matter how many times. His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. Department of Health and Human Services.

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