ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I She represents a growing number of Muslim families who are forgoing the public school system.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. Teachers, school administrators and academic leaders in public and private schools have been seeking our services to cope with their chronic fatigue.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last 10 months our team has collaborated with an advisory council of 12 teachers of color representing districts from the League of Innovative Schools , public charter schools including an early childhood center, and private schools across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

NEW YORK—The ritual of back-to-school has always been as predictable as paying taxes. Bugging kids about homework, after asking the inevitable “How did school go today?”. First-day jitters. Waiting for buses. If you have friends who you can form pods with, DO IT!”. Related: We can make pods equitable if we work together.

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The Hechinger Report

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 4, 2024

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? Many students at more accessible institutions can run intellectual circles around their peers at “top schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: These are among the reasons why William Carey University, a private school in Hattiesburg, has launched or is planning to launch several initiatives to tackle teacher shortages across the state. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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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.

Pedagogy 103

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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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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

And so the milestones provide a space for them to grow, a space for them to be seen as human, as validated,” she says. These days, Black Mothers Forum microschools are educating about 60 students spread over nine schools, ranging from five to 10 students each. They tried a private school, but found that Isaiah struggled there.

Education 126

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

High School 145

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

So, for example, understanding the role of the human heart in the body is not just about being able to label where the human heart is on a diagram or being able to spit out a definition. “So it’s not just creativity in the sense of like the arts, but it’s more like, okay, you know something about the human heart. .”

Project-Based Learning 130

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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.

Private School 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: A private school resets its tuition. As a former manager of a charter school network in post-Katrina New Orleans, I saw Democratic and Republican reformers together erode labor protections.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

“This is an opportunity to think about what we want middle school to look like, rather than just going back to the status quo,” said Nancy L. Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. The Adolescent Brain.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. All kinds of institutions — from large public universities to small private schools — face challenges. Enrollment and tuition revenue, in particular, “don’t tell you everything, but they get you a lot of the way there.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools. It’s almost like we have to give up our humanity to become a teacher,” she said.

Elementary School 142

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Moving all students to a September start date “would put the district in the best position to avoid excessive heat days during the upcoming school year,” said Milwaukee Public Schools Chief Human Resources Officer Adria Maddaleni during a December 2023 meeting.

Public School 124

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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

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. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

Social Justice 131

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

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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?

Private School 87

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul of the state’s existing quality rating system and required a uniform rating system for all early childhood programs that receive any public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: It can be difficult for a public university to vie for those candidates against better-funded private schools, Allen said. “If Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

Psychology 112

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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

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.

Elementary School 145

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective.

Cultures 93

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

Teaching 88

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Students’ lists of their top three strengths adorn the walls.

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