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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

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.

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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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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. They’re average.”.

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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools?

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.