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.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 24, 2018
With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
House Republicans recently returned to one of their favorite targets for spending cuts: the country’s most vulnerable youth and the schools that serve them. Their plan would represent a major setback to efforts to achieve racial equity in our nation’s public schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2020
But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. We need more black male teachers in public schools.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2020
This is the demographic of parents with the widest mismatch between their stated ideals and their actions when it comes to public school choice. This paradox is too often rationalized in terms of test scores and shared perceptions of schools that enroll many students of color and have even slightly lower test scores.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 5, 2019
As a former public school parent and a white woman with a white son who performs well on the metrics that get students into the most selective public schools, I know the peer pressure that white parents feel to get their children into these high-status schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Shouldn’t we be far more interested in outputs, such as how schools contribute (or not) to student learning and development? I chose New York City middle schools to illustrate this point because New York publishes a lot of data on its public schools. Related: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?
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