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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. During its first year, the charter school’s student body was 70 percent white; enrollment in the local public schools was 4 percent white.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

The Hechinger Report

In Pennsylvania, lawyers say, many of the residentials are regulated like private schools, which is to say, hardly at all. a 15-year old in the Western Pennsylvania city of Greenville, hopes to have the chance to graduate from a public school like the one she used to attend. Another foster student, M.S.,

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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

The Hechinger Report

At some high schools, more than half of the classes were taught by uncertified teachers, including nearly 70 percent of courses at West Bolivar High School in Rosedale, and 61 percent at Heidelberg Junior High School in Heidelberg. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi?