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What aspects of teaching should remain human?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Credit: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report Since the November 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an expanding cast of AI tutors and helpers have entered the learning landscape. Ultimately, these experts envision a partnership in which AI is not called on to be a teacher but to supercharge the power of humans already doing the job.

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PARENT VOICE: They call it ‘school choice,’ but you may not end up with much of a choice at all

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.

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COLUMN: We could have avoided this disastrous fall

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. Related: We can make pods equitable if we work together. Those who can’t afford any help face despair.

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OPINION: The outbreak didn’t need to be this hard on students — we can do better next time by rethinking how and when learning takes place

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Parents with means have always known that classroom learning isn’t enough, and have ensured their children have access to enrichment programs, mentors, internships, technological tools and private tutors. They already know how to continue learning outside of school. Millions of children will not be fine.

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OPINION: We’ve got to train special education teachers to be leaders as well as educators

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

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.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

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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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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.

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Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Weekly Update.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d never taken the ACT, and she hadn’t studied math since Marilyn Buck tutored her inside the prison more than two decades earlier. The new gig would eventually allow her to take free classes at the prestigious private school, but working double shifts meant Metz could no longer fit in regular courses at Southern.

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OPINION: How school segregation hit home for one white father

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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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

We had a tutor. Our school districts provided Chromebooks. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring. My daughter is going to a private school this year. Rory Robinson, Fremont County, Wyoming Credit: Image provided by Rory Robinson.

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How one Mississippi community copes with influx of Hispanic students

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. Francis of Dubuque, a group of nuns from Iowa who operate a tutoring center in town. Hang 26 live birds per minute for slaughter.”. from Guatemala.

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COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With coronavirus cases soaring and schools facing teacher and technology shortages, DeVos has spent the last few months urging public schools to open, under threat of losing federal money, while at the same time calling for immediate relief for private schools. It’s not that parents don’t want options.

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Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

They asked McMahon about Trump administration priorities such as expanding school choice, including private school vouchers , and interpreting Title IX to bar transgender students from restrooms and sports teams aligned with their gender identities. Her understanding of the federal bureaucracy is an asset, supporters say.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. He has also warned schools that, if reelected, he would cut or eliminate federal funding if teachers or school employees suggest “to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.”

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

School choice Harris, who was endorsed by the nation’s largest public school teachers unions, has voiced support for public schools, but has said little about school vouchers or school choice. Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter.

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What aspects of teaching should remain human?

PARENT VOICE: They call it ‘school choice,’ but you may not end up with much of a choice at all

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COLUMN: We could have avoided this disastrous fall

OPINION: The outbreak didn’t need to be this hard on students — we can do better next time by rethinking how and when learning takes place

OPINION: We’ve got to train special education teachers to be leaders as well as educators

Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

OPINION: How school segregation hit home for one white father

“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

How one Mississippi community copes with influx of Hispanic students

COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever

Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

What education could look like under Harris and Walz

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