The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Thousands wanted to go to highly regarded middle schools, some of which were in nearby suburbs of the large Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district. The lucky ones, who won a seat to their first choice middle school, were less likely to be arrested or end up in prison between the ages of 16 and 22.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

In the 2011-12 school year, 19 percent of public and private schools in the United States did some form of looping. He started looping by accident as a seventh-grade middle school teacher. Rogers’ school was hard pressed to find a high-level math instructor. Meet Mark Rogers.

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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. backtoschool2020 #teacherlife2020 #teacher #middleschool #middleschooltips #school ?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The view from the entrance of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can’t help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Inside the doors of the middle school, there’s a different American story playing out.

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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. Jared Setnar, Upper School Director of Chesapeake Bay Academy Collaboration From the Start Chesapeake Bay Academy in Virginia is in a unique position when it comes to teachers’ role in edtech selection.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

“So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. That same year, Starkville Academy, a private school called a segregation academy by some in the area, took in its first students, most of them white. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

And topics that are listed in the standards, like DNA, lend themselves to teaching about vaccines, said Mike Fumagalli, principal at Glenn Westlake Middle School in Illinois and a former high school biology teacher. Distancing the science of vaccination from its use in people helps even skeptical students understand the science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Middle school students at Summit Denali work with a teacher in a small group. A private school in northern California uses technology to create bespoke paths for students and rugged trips – like camping in the winter snow — to teach independence. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools. Quinton Rawls attended a middle school with no teams and not enough teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your home that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’ In Milwaukee, where only about one-fourth of public school classrooms have air conditioning, the district took a similar approach this year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images. “In

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Alexandria, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology scrapped its entrance exam and is conducting a “ holistic review ” of applicants based on their GPAs, essays and other factors. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since middle school, I knew that it would be up to me to find a way to pay for college. No student should have an expected family contribution that dwarfs the cost of attendance at even the most expensive of private schools. Emily Erickson We didn’t think this would be difficult for me to do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In the elementary school, art classes were cut. The middle school had to downsize its band program. The middle school grades were phased into the under-populated high school. And in what may have been the most controversial move, the middle school building was rented out to a charter school.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I In English, 27 percent of the school’s students were proficient, compared to roughly 55 percent statewide.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

He had spent fourth grade learning to structure sentences, when his peers were writing full paragraphs, and middle school writing paragraphs, when his peers were tackling essays. Special education high school students used books more appropriate for middle school and never had to write essays of more than a few hundred words.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Galt is sufficiently suburban to locate its district office in a strip mall next to an AutoZone, but rural enough that a tractor flattens the dirt track at McCaffrey Middle School. While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school. But it was the recession, and Jennie was soon laid off. They’ve been in Arizona since.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

As far back as middle school, she fantasized about leaving the state to attend an elite university. I’m looking around and talking to students all coming from private schools and preparatories and hearing the mind-boggling opportunities they’ve had,” she said. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. RED WING, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But what makes this center unique is that it is serves Bushwick, a high-poverty community in which public elementary schools don’t do well on state and city tests. “We She has taught in private schools on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, two of New York City’s most affluent areas.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. But she’d been around enough adults to discern which ones were genuine, and she believed Marcovitz. Plus, she had little to lose.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. Sometimes, schools even force children to choose. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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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. The divisions for American students also occur within schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2018

She returned to the States in middle school. And even though she went to American public schools for seven years, she ended up in the lowest-level ESL class at Montgomery College. She said she plans on having just one child so if she has to pay for her son to get tutoring or go to a private school, she can.

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High School K-12 Tutoring Private School 85

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Private providers are one of the program’s fundamental building blocks, but many of them say that surviving within the framework of city-mandated expectations, guidelines and funding is tough, even though the city has put in place numerous incentives and supports.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

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. How can I help you?”

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Public School Private School Charter School Education 137

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition.

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Private School Psychology Public School Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The black community expressed dismay that all symbols of black accomplishment — plaques, citations, trophies, and class pictures — were removed and tossed aside when the all-black Coleman High School was converted into an integrated middle school. Sacrificing Coleman High School. But the parents didn’t let it happen.”.

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Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty.

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