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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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

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

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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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

Troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Private schools in particular, Weissbourd said, “to be attractive to parents, need to be able to tout how many of their students went to selective colleges.

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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 143

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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

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

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 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

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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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

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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Born in Madisonville, Louisiana , in 1923, Ms. Leah moved to New Orleans as a child to live with relatives because her hometown didn’t have a school for black children. Mary’s Academy, a private school for black girls. Mississippi Learning. She eventually graduated from St.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mindfulness programs can vary widely from school to school —- from audio recordings of meditation instruction played a few minutes each day, to entire classes for mindfulness and anything in between. Four years in, they received a grant from the Family League of Baltimore City to pay themselves for their teaching.

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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

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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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.

Social Justice 51

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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

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.

Psychology 83

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The Hechinger Report

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

APRIL 22, 2019

Jay Munz, who’s taught math in Whitmore Lake for 23 years, said he remembers being shocked when he first read the ballot measure — written by bond lawyers — which didn’t go much beyond “Shall the Public Schools of the City of Ann Arbor County of Washtenaw, Michigan, assume the bonded indebtedness of the Whitmore Lake Public School District?”.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

He admired Tulane’s reputation — the New Orleans private school is the highest-ranked Louisiana university on U.S. Even his bioengineering major made him diverse: Many students come to school politics from the humanities departments. News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

School officials tout the arts-based curriculum and the joy they say it brings students, but acknowledge that side-lining test preparation has caused test scores to suffer and lowered the performance grades the school receives from the state education department. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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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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