The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early college high school students graduate college in greater numbers. Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. Despite their name, early college high schools aren’t really college or high school but a hybrid of both.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

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. Math scores among top performers dropped as steeply as scores did among low performers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. What is an unexpected way that your role shapes the day for kids?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades. Lawmakers in Ohio in recent years have lifted income caps on those vouchers, along with their requirement that to be eligible, families must live in an area with schools designated as failing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In New York, where I live, the city spends upwards of $300 million a year in taxpayer funds on private school tuition for children with disabilities. No well-designed research study has compared a dyslexia-specific remedy, such as Orton-Gillingham, head-to-head with more general interventions for children who struggle in reading.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

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. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These six books, with varying perspectives, retell significant well-researched stories about eras of Black history — clearing up some myths, providing context, and offering resources for teaching, learning and understanding the wholeness of Black history. 4) in the 1960s, when public schools were required to racially integrate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here’s the latest, more profound way in which wealthier students have an advantage over lower-income ones: Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades — critical in the competition for college admission — than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later.

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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

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. Still, research shows that digital-resource usage hasn’t reached its full potential. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

underfunding of public schools. legislation favoring – and spending of public monies on – alternative teacher preparation programs, charters, vouchers, homeschooling, and other non-public school options. mass firings in so-called ‘failing schools’ enactment of ‘parent trigger’ laws.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

birth and immigration rates have been falling since before the COVID-19 outbreak, decreasing the number of school-aged children,” according to an analysis by the firm. The pandemic accelerated these trends and sparked a shift in enrollment from traditional public schools to charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

Schools and teachers who embrace looping have these opportunities as well as the benefits of higher attendance, increased engagement, more instructional time, improved teacher retention and gains in student achievement. If not at home, why not at school? Teacher licensure and standards vary from state to state.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

Among 20,000 middle and high school students surveyed by Youth Truth , a national nonprofit research organization, just 41 percent of them said they could motivate themselves to do schoolwork while their school buildings were closed. Already, the institute has projects under way with a handful of public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If we can’t reverse enrollment losses, the cost of running a school will become untenable. Public school enrollment fell nearly 3 percent after the pandemic hit. Some children switched to private schools. If access and quality are compromised, it will risk our democratic foundations.

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Maitri Learning

MARCH 20, 2023

Do you want more high-quality research on Montessori? The Montessori Research Pool can help! Through a collaborative effort, a new, University-based Montessori Research Pool has been created. Why we need this There is a tremendous need for more high-quality Montessori research. You can opt-out at any time.

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Maitri Learning

MARCH 20, 2023

Do you want more high-quality research on Montessori? The Montessori Research Pool can help! Through a collaborative effort, a new, University-based Montessori Research Pool has been created. Why we need this There is a tremendous need for more high-quality Montessori research. You can opt-out at any time.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our cries for content-rich curriculum firmly seated in how the brain learns to read and write, as evidenced by decades of scientific research, fell on deaf ears. We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. They’ve had more than ample opportunity to prove their research.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. Buyer beware,” she advised.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. Teachers, school administrators and academic leaders in public and private schools have been seeking our services to cope with their chronic fatigue.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Among people who started ninth grade in 2009, about a third took some type of dual enrollment course, Fink says, adding, “That’s a big penetration into the high school market.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

In Reggio-inspired schools, children are viewed as capable of constructing their own learning when guided by a skilled teacher who understands the importance of harnessing the natural curiosity of young children. Related: Will the real Montessori please stand up? Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. Join working groups on a broad range of topics relevant to the changing needs of school districts. million students.

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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This research was motivated by Goodnotes' position as the AI-powered digital paper preferred by millions of students and teachers worldwide. The consequent published research is broken down into five recommendations that our contributors have highlighted as the most important, with diversity and equity at the forefront of our thinking.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As a laboratory for the Albemarle district, Community Lab School is charged with testing new approaches to middle school that could be scaled to the district’s five comprehensive middle schools. Yet many schools are doing the opposite of what the research recommends. Peter Gray, Boston College.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last 10 months our team has collaborated with an advisory council of 12 teachers of color representing districts from the League of Innovative Schools , public charter schools including an early childhood center, and private schools across the country. The post How to Improve the Teacher of Color Pipeline?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I spoke to Cowen because he’s spent years researching choice options such as vouchers, and has concluded they do more harm than good and often lead to worse outcomes for vulnerable children. Yet demand for the vouchers is such that Florida parents and schools are having trouble accessing them. It’s not a movement,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? Research reveals the degree to which these schools fuel the pipeline for some of the most prestigious leadership roles in America.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report It’s still too soon to say how much the law will impact future teacher recruitment and retention, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas. Karen Wilson, a third-grade teacher in Mayflower, Arkansas, looks over a student’s shoulder as he completes a worksheet.

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