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. The post OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S.

Charter School 114

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Massachusetts has an innovation school law that Dickinson thought laid out a clear path to her dream, only she couldn’t find a school district to partner with. Instead, she opened a small private school in Winchester, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston and one of the state’s wealthiest communities.

Public School 112

Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Montessori Method was developed by Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician, who opened her first school in 1907. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. But in order to learn this important skill, children must practice day in and day out.

Charter School 111

Charter School Private School Critical Thinking Leadership 111

Digital Promise

MAY 29, 2015

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. The League has more than doubled in size, now with 57 members across the country, representing more than 3.2 million students.

Private School 98

Private School Leadership Public School Teaching 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like in many private schools and Rhode Island, high school seniors had to complete a deep, complex, multidisciplinary capstone requirement in order to graduate? every high school student in Iowa had the opportunity to do a credit-earning, community-based internship before graduation?

Education 102

Education Project-Based Learning Private School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In cities like New York, where students can choose among public schools, public charters and private schools, a theme can be a way for a program to stand out from the competition.

Middle School 134

Middle School High School Private School Public School 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Invest in the schools doing the bulk of equity work. Far greater numbers of Black, Latino and Native American students are enrolled at public and private schools with moderately selective to open admission practices than at elite colleges. Here are some ways we can help: 1.

Education 97

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 3, 2020

Finally , for those of you who are considering participating in a ‘pandemic pod’ with other families or sending your students to the private school down the road, please don’t. We need everyone’s support (and money) for the public schools during this challenging time.

Private School 145

Private School Public School Teaching Education 145

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.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kimberly Dixon, left, director of employer engagement and diversity recruitment at Stony Brook University, speaks with Djamilie Jules and other students in the Diversity Professional Leadership Network on campus. Photo by Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. It’s imperfect, but we’ve tried to fill those gaps,” he said.

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Leadership Geography Private School Economics 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It says , “As originally implemented, the program offered students who attended or who were assigned to attend failing public schools the option to choose a higher performing public school or a participating private school.” Offered an option — that’s correct. Opportunity — that’s not always correct.

Private School 69

Private School Public School Leadership Economics 69

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice Lesson Plan Cultures Private School 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They have the drive, work ethic and leadership skills to succeed in the classroom. More of them should apply to top schools. They have defended our nation, the same nation these schools have flourished in for well over a century. There is no excuse for the continued absence of veterans at America’s top schools.

Private School 64

Private School Civics Leadership Government 64

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

What they did find, however, were pockets of excellent, deep learning in nearly every school they visited, individual teachers who designed and delivered rich, engaging learning experiences for their students in public schools, private schools, schools with excellent resources, and those without.

Project-Based Learning 130

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Humanities Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. It’s an approach associated with affluent private schools — free from state curricula and testing mandates. He was the only minority in a leadership role at Revere High, for instance.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2016

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. Yes, we still hear from the media about public schools’ alleged failures to effectively use electronic devices. The deadline to apply is 11:59 p.m.

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Private School Public School Leadership Teaching 0

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

The average public school counselor in the United States is responsible for 483 students, according to the American School Counselor Association and National Association of College Admissions Counselors , nearly twice the caseload the association recommends. In California, it’s one counselor to 760 students.

High School 93

High School Charter School Economics Leadership 93

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

Charter School 98

Charter School Public School Social Justice Private School 98

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All through high school, my counselor assured me that if I worked hard I would be able to win enough scholarships to cover the cost of college. No student should have an expected family contribution that dwarfs the cost of attendance at even the most expensive of private schools. So work I did.

Private School 105

Private School High School Middle School Leadership 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

While there is some fear about a new federal school voucher program or private school tax credits, the likelihood is this will not occur through a wholesale dismantling of ESSA. If significant education budget cuts are in fact implemented, it will make the work of educators and school leaders more difficult.

Education 75

Education Private School Professional Development Leadership 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. S he hadn’t told anyone, but she’d decided she couldn’t go back to Birmingham in January. Another three earned degrees this year.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Board members began pushing to renovate some of the old school buildings in the late 90s. Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools.

Private School 66

Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 66

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.

Charter School 86

Charter School Leadership Library Private School 86

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars. They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(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.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. Parents say the instruction at Pre-K 4 SA is as good as any they’ve seen at private schools.

K-12 75

K-12 Professional Development Advocacy Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. Her parents wanted a private school with strong academics.

Private School 121

Private School K-12 Economics Cultures 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2021

She needs financial aid to afford University of New Haven, a private school where she now hopes to go; in late February, she was anxious. Because she is 18, she said, her parents don’t want to provide information, so she missed the college’s aid deadline. Now, she hopes to transfer there in the future.

High School 137

High School Charter School Public School Private School 137

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. I want other students, not only black students, but all students to see a black student is just as capable in a leadership position.” News and World Report’s list — but he didn’t feel at home when he toured in 2014.

Library 110

Library Government High School Civics 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report.

Psychology 96

Psychology Elementary School K-12 Private School 96

ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Knowing that, what did the companies tell us about how educators are represented in the ranks of edtech leadership? Almost all of the participating companies reported at least a couple former educators in high-level leadership positions. And what might that, in turn, tell us about how well their products work for teachers?

EdTech 105

EdTech K-12 Leadership Cultures 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kids are growing up really fast because of the internet, and then you get to high school and Covid happens. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. the superintendent of North Carolina’s Rowan-Salisbury Schools, would replace William Hite, who led Philadelphia schools for a decade.

Oral History 108

Oral History History High School Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Instead, the school is planning to work with North Carolina State University’s Caldwell Fellows to host a summer school program for its students, according to Principal Larry Savage. Related: This country spends billions on private schools — and has a terrible learning gap between poor and wealthy. “We

Elementary School 86

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 86

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 86

Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024.

High School 141

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Consider the current makeup of the American economy: There are 8 million construction workers in the United States, more than double the number of public and private school teachers. Schools could dedicate some counselors to college preparation, some to career readiness and some to athletics.

Leadership 107

Leadership High School Economics Private School 107