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

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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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

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

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 6, 2023

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

Montessori schools have many loyal devotees and they’re certainly rising in popularity among American parents. But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? Some kids win a seat in a Montessori school. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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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

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

MAY 6, 2024

That year, the Supreme Court required the county to abolish its separate Black and white schools and students were reassigned to different schools to integrate them. The researchers focused on roughly 500 larger school districts where there were at least 2,500 Black students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing. But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis. The 1969 desegregation order had another effect.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. And that’s just the average number of applications per student.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. “For

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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. Revere is moving to spread student-centered learning across its 11 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. This is a very culture-heavy city and the more teachers you have who know that culture, the better the schools will be,” said Walton.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Then she took to Google, researching the virtual homeschool options in her state, trying to suss out the rules and regulations with which she would have to comply. Martin’s concerns about in-person schooling are three-fold. Virtual learning gave them a sense of options outside the traditional public school model.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. During its first year, the charter school’s student body was 70 percent white; enrollment in the local public schools was 4 percent white.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Add in demographic changes, and it’s no surprise that demand is falling for the traditional college experience. In fact, according to research from New America, the academic programs offered are the most important decision factor for a student’s specific college choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Research backs up what Carter perceived — that exposure to people with different voices and experiences yields better learning. Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? But what is it, exactly? Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system. More than a quarter of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2020

I just taught a high school class the other day, that’s taught by a friend who teaches at a private school, and those students, some of them hadn’t shown up. Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Most of them were seniors. Stephen Smith.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. She writes down words she doesn’t know to look them up later, and spends her free time scrolling through the Internet to research any topic she can conjure.

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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 Fast forward to today. “You

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

. — Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow through reading assignments and research religious questions online. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Watching what happened in West Virginia, in Oklahoma,” Jennie explained, “we learned something — and from the kids, with the school shooting, how fast they can turn it around.

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