Celebrating Student-Led Environmentalism at Broward County Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 18, 2024
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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.
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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. I find comfort in metaphors. They help me find clarity when faced with challenges.
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Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 2, 2024
The post Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools appeared first on Digital Promise.
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Where Do We Stand Today in the Struggle to Save Public Schools?
Diane Ravitch
MAY 13, 2024
Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci about the current state of public education. It was aired on their show “Busted Pencils,” which is dedicated to teachers, students, and public schools. We talked about charters, vouchers, testing, and how to get involved. Everyone can stand up for what they believe.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 016 – Brigantine Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 13, 2020
Thank you, Glenn Robbins , for sharing how the Brigantine Public Schools in New Jersey have been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 002 – American International School of Guangzhou. Episode 016 is below.
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Celebrating Student Creators and Changemakers at Norwalk Public Schools and Richland School District Two
Digital Promise
APRIL 25, 2024
The post Celebrating Student Creators and Changemakers at Norwalk Public Schools and Richland School District Two appeared first on Digital Promise.
What if public schools never reopen?
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2020
American public schools may never fully recover from the coronavirus crisis. In the next few weeks, public schools in the U.S. The coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to switch to remote learning this spring. The post What if public schools never reopen? Right now, there are none.
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OPINION: How San Francisco public schools got math instruction wrong
The Hechinger Report
JULY 24, 2023
That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. The post OPINION: How San Francisco public schools got math instruction wrong appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline
The Hechinger Report
MAY 15, 2023
No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators.
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STUDENT VOICE: My state supports public school choice, and I’m grateful for the options
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. For reaching my personal academic and career goals, online public school has been the right fit.
Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 6, 2020
Thank you, Jeremy Tucker and Jeanette Westfall , for sharing how the Liberty Public Schools in Missouri are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 002 – American International School of Guangzhou. Check it out!
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OPINION: We need more women in top leadership positions in our nation’s public schools
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Public school teaching remains a female- dominated profession. Nearly 80 percent of classroom teachers in our public schools are women. That continues to be the case in too many of our public school districts. Yet when it comes to the top job — superintendent — just three in 10 are women.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 20, 2020
Thank you, Dr. Andrea Whitmarsh, for sharing how the Greene County Public Schools in Virginia are mobilizing during these early days! If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Episode 001 is below. See also the complete list of episodes.
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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 4, 2024
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6
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How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools
ED Surge
MARCH 15, 2023
It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. It was then that I saw the ingrained sense of worth that society has etched into our public schools.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 024 – Edina Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 11, 2020
Thank you, Michael Walker and Sean Beaverson , for sharing how the Edina Public Schools in Minnesota are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about how your school district is trying to ensure that students have some deeper learning opportunities, even during the pandemic. .
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OPINION: Students with disabilities should not lose their rights when they are placed in private settings by public school systems
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.
Coronavirus Chronicles 015 – Jeffco Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 11, 2020
Thank you, Mary Beth Bazzanella and Kala Munguia , for sharing how the Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado have been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 002 – American International School of Guangzhou.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 029 ? Burlington Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 5, 2020
Thank you, Patrick Larkin and Dennis Villano , for sharing how the Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, Massachusetts are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 029 is below.
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Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
All of which brings us to the concerns that you note in the Denver Public Schools (DPS). Iowa school poverty and report card rankings. Chamber of Commerce wages war on public schools. Accordingly, fewer Colorado students will be deemed ‘at grade level’ than if our benchmarks were set closer to those elsewhere.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 010 – Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 3, 2020
Thank you, Mike Berry , for sharing how the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools in Vermont are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.
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OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
This assessment — which has no stakes for schools, teachers or students — will cover all 50 states, with particular attention to 27 large urban school districts. Proposing to resume universal standardized testing in America’s public schools, while relaxing the accountability provisions these tests support, is foolhardy.
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OPINION: U.S. public schools should be federally funded
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
How good are America’s public schools? Education funding is like any other public infrastructure investment. School systems with sufficient funding tend to get better results. In states like Kansas and Arizona , leaders have long underfunded their public education systems. It depends on where you live.
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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 14, 2021
The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.
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Coronavirus Chronicles 003 – Bismarck Public Schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 25, 2020
Thank you, Ben Johnson and Tanna Kincaid , for sharing how the Bismarck Public Schools in North Dakota have been adapting to our new reality. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.
Virtual Schooling Is Here to Stay: Reimagining Post-Pandemic Virtual Learning in Public Schools
Education Elements
JANUARY 19, 2021
From North Carolina to California to Alaska, public schools around the United States are planning to preserve a virtual school option for students after the pandemic is over. The constant drumbeat of getting all students back to school as quickly as possible does not tell the whole story of learning in the pandemic.
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Adapting, Balancing, and Collaborating in Mentor Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 7, 2017
Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. ” Keep up on Twitter with the League at #DPLIS , the League meeting at #LISMentor , and the great work happening in Mentor Public Schools at #OnceACard.
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OPINION: Boston Public Schools are exposing students to career options as early as middle school, and it’s paying off
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 22, 2023
At this critical stage in students’ development, their future success can be profoundly impacted by how their school approaches career-connected learning and if it is using a coordinated approach that combines academics with awareness, exploration and preparation for postsecondary education and career. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.
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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2020
While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”.
She gave up on public schools that rejected her bold ideas a decade ago. Now she’s back.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2020
Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.
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Learnings from Implementing Personalized Learning in Denver Public Schools
Education Elements
MAY 16, 2018
In the three-plus years since introducing Personalized Learning (PL) in individual schools within a large public school system, the Imaginarium, Denver Public Schools’ (DPS) innovation lab, has been studying the conditions that help and hinder the implementation of PL at scale.
The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent fewer public school students a decade from now. The post The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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Why Public Schools Must Bolster Civics Instruction (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Our students are among the youngest voters in the country. Are they being targeted as pawns in an illicit political game?
Looking Back on the League Meeting with Loudoun County Public Schools
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 23, 2019
The League of Innovative Schools (League) convened in Washington, D.C. and Loudoun County Virginia last week for the biannual #DPLIS meeting, co-hosted with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). The post Looking Back on the League Meeting with Loudoun County Public Schools appeared first on Digital Promise.
Report outlines long road ahead for Jackson Public Schools
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 3, 2018
High school students from Jackson Public Schools gather to discuss ways to improve district schools at Jackson Convention Complex in Mississippi last week. The post Report outlines long road ahead for Jackson Public Schools appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report.
OPINION: Is home-based public school the next big thing for 3-year-olds?
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Kendra Hurley is senior editor at The New School’s Center for New York City Affairs. The post OPINION: Is home-based public school the next big thing for 3-year-olds? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
Promoters of school choice are unwilling to ensure equal access in regular public schools
Dangerously Irrelevant
JANUARY 11, 2017
They espouse the premise that all students are entitled to equal learning opportunities and reason that since students are not getting those equal opportunities in public school, they should be allowed to go elsewhere.
OPINION: U.S. Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2020
Constitution even though some families sent their children to religious schools. The court issued its ruling in June 2002, and, two months later on the first day of school, traditional public schools in Ohio opened as usual. Espinoza will not unwind public-school spending requirements. The post OPINION: U.S.
The Lengths Teachers Will Go For Kids
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
In my work with school leaders, one of my goals is to push them to unearth these exemplars while also supporting teachers to grow and improve. Recently I was facilitating some longitudinal coaching work with administrators from Paterson Public Schools in NJ.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2014
They found that after controlling for the known effects of demographics, particularly wealth and social class, private schools (and independently run charter schools) demonstrated no advantage over public schools. If you are in a position to consider private school for your child, you probably don’t need to.
Public-school tests glitch across state
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2016
The post Public-school tests glitch across state appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sierra Mannie is an education reporting fellow for the Jackson Free Press and The Hechinger Report. Email her at sierra@jacksonfreepress.com. For more education stories visit jfp.ms/education.
Amid Public School Restrictions, 'Freedom Schools' in Florida Will Teach Black History
Education Week - Social Studies
JUNE 5, 2023
Petersburg, Fla., a summer program focuses on the diverse histories of Africans and African Americans.
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