The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.

K-12 111

K-12 Private School Middle School Tutoring 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2019

Secretary of Education, continues to insist that private-school vouchers are the magic wand that the nation can wave to create equity for disadvantaged children — especially disadvantaged children of color. And this, in part, is why neighborhood schools are so important.

K-12 105

K-12 Private School Public School Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

8:04 AM Four people waiting in the lobby, 12 callers “Good morning! On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side.

Public School 137

Public School Private School Charter School Education 137

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere.

Public School 134

Public School Civics Private School K-12 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. The type of text analysis he guides his students through is far more common in colleges and graduate-school programs, but the coding that makes it possible is an increasingly popular skill to teach children.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Tradition Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Charter schools similarly involve state financing, allocated to state-chartered, privately managed and operated schools, which typically face at least somewhat tighter state oversight and regulation than purely “private” schools.

Charter School 128

Charter School K-12 Heritage Private School 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

Three days later, on March 12, Northshore’s superintendent, Michelle Reid, decided to hit pause on her “classroom to cloud,” citing “issues of equity” including “special education services, food and nutrition, English learner services, and child care.”. This is bigger than K-12 if you’re going to address equity.”

Teaching 145

Teaching K-12 Public School Private School 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In Florida and Wisconsin, schools have padlocked or sealed drinking fountains to keep kids from using them. Students at a private school in San Rafael, California, are learning in outdoor classrooms created from tree stumps and hay bales. Credit: The Village School. In a hybrid class on Sept. Credit: Amy Sumner.

Library 143

Library Charter School K-12 Private School 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade.

Civics 145

Civics Digital Resources K-12 Lesson Plan 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028. “We Yet Brookdale, other community colleges, and their K-12 school partners face a few challenges in order for dual enrollment to “live up to its potential as a lever of access and equity to college and careers,” Fink says.

High School 144

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If we can’t reverse enrollment losses, the cost of running a school will become untenable. Some children switched to private schools. Others started home schooling, which ballooned by 35 percent from before the pandemic in the 18 states that shared recent homeschooling data.

Public School 125

Public School Private School K-12 Professional Development 125

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Black, Indigenous, students of color make up more than 50 percent of the K-12 student population, yet the number of non-white teachers in schools is only 20 percent. How can we collaborate with and learn from teachers of color to create solutions to address this systematic shortage?

K-12 131

K-12 Charter School Private School Humanities 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

s Most Elite Private School.” If I could change anything I would change the pressure students and families feel to design themselves and their K-12 education to please admission officers,”. Is there no end to how far parents with unlimited checkbooks and outsized expectations for their children will go?

K-12 107

K-12 Tutoring Private School Education 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. Over the last several years, schools like Southern New Hampshire University have blazed new trails in higher education by promoting successful competency-based models.

K-12 111

K-12 Tradition High School Private School 111

ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

About 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. They tried a private school, but found that Isaiah struggled there. The school also seemed full of rich kids.

Education 129

Education Public School K-12 Private School 129

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

Charter School 111

Charter School K-12 Private School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

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.

K-12 84

K-12 Charter School Private School Elementary School 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

Education 123

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 123

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

Heritage 80

Heritage K-12 Tutoring Private School 80

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Roslyn Mickelson, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina who has researched the effects of desegregation, found that students who experience K-12 education in diverse classrooms are more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods and enroll their kids in integrated schools as adults.

K-12 119

K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 119

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

Charter School 108

Charter School K-12 Public School Private School 108

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating. What does gatekeeping comfort and movement achieve?

Public School 114

Public School K-12 Pedagogy Private School 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 84

K-12 Professional Development Public School Advocacy 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Armed with research showing that preschool delivers long-term benefits, particularly to low-income students, states more than doubled their spending on pre-K between 2006 and 2016, when total spending reached $7.4 Julie Grubb, an Indiana kindergarten teacher who leads a pre-K camp. Throughout the U.S., I love this program.

K-12 79

K-12 Library Elementary School Government 79

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.

K-12 145

K-12 Charter School Public School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

With about 4,500 full-time employees in the area, The Wonderful Company is one of the region’s largest employers, and, while its full-time workers are paid more than the state’s $12 per hour minimum wage, many of its employees are just scraping by. The Delano charter, which now hosts 1,800 K-12 students, opened in 2009.

Charter School 97

Charter School K-12 High School Private School 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. a parent’s) political support.

Public School 68

Public School K-12 Charter School Elementary School 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming?

Public School 52

Public School K-12 Heritage Private School 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. As in many Delta communities, the town’s private school was founded in 1965 —the same year the community’s public schools began desegregation. To find their white peers you’ll have to drive over to Indianola Academy.

Private School 116

Private School History Public School Humanities 116

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

Private School 97

Private School Elementary School Advocacy Public School 97

The Hechinger Report

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.

K-12 96

K-12 Public School History Tutoring 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

While the federal government does not track the average age of bus drivers or other support staff in schools, data from the AARP suggests that, nationally, about three in four part-time school bus drivers are over age 55. With income and sales taxes plummeting, many states won’t be able to shield local schools from the financial pain.

K-12 138

K-12 Government Private School Public School 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

It’s weird that in the school system they don’t teach something that everyone should know.”. Related: Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans. Exclusive private schools and charter schools like High Tech High are pioneering other innovative ideas.

High School 76

High School Charter School K-12 Private School 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Her white friends began to slowly and reluctantly peel away to private schools, parochial schools, boarding schools. Parents and school officials didn’t allow integrated proms, dances, or any other school-organized social events until the early ’90s. Other private school options, such as the nearby St.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Indeed, the Brooklyn school, which added two public prekindergarten classes last year under New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s expansion of pre-K, earns high marks on reviews from independent evaluators — but it’s not alone. The pre-K age is crucial to their development,” she said. They are sponges now.”. Long road to results.

K-12 72

K-12 Elementary School Library Middle School 72

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

million — number of public and private school students stuck at home during the pandemic. million public and private school students stuck at home. million public and private school students stuck at home. Until the coronavirus happened.

Tutoring 110

Tutoring Education Private School Teaching 110