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. Many more states mandated hallmarks of the Orton-Gillingham method, specifically calling for “multisensory” instruction.

Tutoring 138

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

One can study the students at schools that have adopted the Core Knowledge curriculum, but it’s hard to know if the students who attend these schools would have scored just as high in reading if they had been taught the usual way at a traditional public school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

Charter School 125

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We understand that many schools around the world will be taking substantial steps to utilize this new technology, not just in handwritten digital note-taking but from bringing generative AI on board as a deputy head to recruiting directors of artificial intelligence. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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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? and that “society would be better if we evolved past the ’traditional’ leader (e.g., male, white, older, etc.).”

Leadership 87

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

Thigpen has now founded The Institute for Self-Directed Learning to encourage more schools to adopt such practices – particularly those serving historically marginalized student groups who rarely get such control over their own learning. Already, the institute has projects under way with a handful of public and private schools.

Private School 142

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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

MAY 6, 2024

More than half of the increase in segregation in the 2000s can be attributed to the rise of charter schools, whose numbers began to increase rapidly in the late 1990s. In many cases, either white or Black families flocked to different charter schools, leaving behind a less diverse student body in traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming?

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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. Credit: Jessica Shearer. Credit: Jessica Shearer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. The type of text analysis he guides his students through is far more common in colleges and graduate-school programs, but the coding that makes it possible is an increasingly popular skill to teach children.

Humanities 110

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

School newspapers and magazines could be taken to an unparalleled level with Adobe DPS. Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps.

Education 263

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district. We needed something that wasn’t like a crazy, private school.” We needed something that wasn’t like a crazy, private school,” Kirk said, noting the importance of a free education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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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 of the students who attended the public Montessori schools had family incomes as high as $200,000 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Hirsch, Jr.

Education 112

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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. While the quality of education offered at private colleges is unsurpassed, many students end up at large state schools solely because they want to pursue a degree that the smaller private schools don’t offer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. Over the last several years, schools like Southern New Hampshire University have blazed new trails in higher education by promoting successful competency-based models.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Educating our nation’s leaders, these schools should no longer deprive their students of the opportunity to appreciate veterans as fellow students, as classmates not unlike themselves, and to hear firsthand and learn from their experiences in uniformed national service. Top private schools are a great value.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. White- and middle-class folk showing others that it’s not a risk to send a child to a good school with lots of black and brown kids — now that’s real reform.

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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.

Private School 110

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Now, parents like Martin say they’re starting to reconsider their expectations of schools after a year and a half at home. Virtual learning gave them a sense of options outside the traditional public school model. She’s also exploring private schools. They are using Gov.

Leadership 121

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. Early decision is typically offered by more selective institutions and locks in applicants who are accepted, even before they see how much financial aid they’ll get.

Tutoring 141

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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.

Charter School 111

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. All of our traditional tools,” said Smith, “have to be reconsidered.”. Related: First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change.

Anthropology 107

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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. Private schools have also been affected. But now a lot of those charter leaders … are talking more about sustainability.”.

Charter School 111

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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 89

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

CITTA has experience building both a hospital and a school in Juanga, a village in India, which now has 360 students from kindergarten through 10 th grade. The private schools are not necessarily better,’’ Sahni said. “I I don’t know that just becoming private will make anything different.”.

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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. This is about personalizing the learning experience, not the expectations for kids.”.

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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. College is free.

Elementary School 0

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Private schools like Arkansas’ Delta School and New York City’s Riverdale Country School (which has a phone app students can use to access a strengths list) are likely to have the resources to explore promising trends like this.

Psychology 83

Psychology Elementary School K-12 Private School 83

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

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.

Public School 116

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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. I see my students off in their homes, some of them relegated to the basement, often sitting in a comfortable chair or on their bed. Most of them were seniors.

High School 123

High School Library Private School Teaching 123

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She acknowledges that the coalition is dominated by schools like Bricolage, schools that embrace progressive teaching approaches that tend to rely much more on projects and much less on testing than traditional schools. But she doesn’t think that hinders their ability to attract parents from differing backgrounds.

Charter School 53

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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.

Charter School 69

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead. To Nelson’s delight, once he started there, his grades dropped as he was finally challenged in school. “I

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