The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Now that the debate on Question 2 has been decided for the foreseeable future — the ballot initiative was defeated, meaning that the current cap on charter schools will remain in place — it’s time to shift the focus to how we can improve opportunities for all Massachusetts students, whether they attend charters or traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations. That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI. The main findings?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. We need a concerted approach to help schools that are not using these proven practices to adopt them. Our case studies show that not only is improvement possible but also that these common strategies can help even those schools with the most challenging circumstances to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2021

Zahner and other administrators in her district hope it will chip away at the isolation children have experienced as well as the learning loss they suffered during the shutdowns: Harrisonburg City Public Schools were closed to most students for nearly a year before opening up, at least in part, in late March.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High. Summer participants were placed into cohorts so they could advance through math classes in high school with peers they knew. At the time of publication, there were no open investigations against Milton Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. Some of these stories even win awards. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And though some colleges have made standardized testing optional for the indefinite future, others are reverting to a system that stacks the deck against students who can’t afford expensive tutors or test-prep classes. But many school districts ramped up their outreach to these students during the crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. They controlled for student demographics and achievement before high school. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The mainstream may not fully recognize them, but that hasn’t stopped Black changemakers with a grassroots appeal, like former DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. As a former tutor, I served PreK-12th grade students who learned the very histories I had to reconstruct my mind to accept years later.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When education went online, pods took off — and then disappeared quickly as school buildings reopened around the country. After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. I think this model brings hope.”. But students wouldn’t go.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. The authors of the report called for more oversight of virtual and blended learning schools, and urged policymakers to slow or stop their growth until more research is done.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Black and brown students are more likely to attend underperforming, under-resourced schools and to be taught by inexperienced teachers. Black and brown students are less likely than their more affluent peers to be able to afford $167-per-hour Princeton Review SHSAT private tutoring or Kaplan’s $999 prep course.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said. It proved to be an academic lifeline. McWilliams said she felt convinced that God was answering her prayers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

The dabbawalas have been profiled by the New York Times and NBC News , among many others, and there is even a Harvard Business School case study about them. . In Mexico, what started as an experiment to improve 8 poor, rural public schools has now exploded into a national network of over 9,000 low-achieving elementary and middle schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Black and brown students are more likely to attend underperforming schools that leave students underprepared for college entrance exams. With public school counselors so overloaded, students must either be lucky enough to find a nonprofit focused on helping drive college access and success or go it alone.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Goyco school in San Juan. Goyco is one of the more than 600 public schools in Puerto Rico that have closed in the past decade. The activists here are part of a growing group of residents mobilizing to turn the empty schools littered across the island into community centers. Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. Her organization estimates that now 6 to 10 percent of public school districts across the United States are piloting or planning competency-based approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools. The new Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont., After winter break, the school enrolled enough new kindergartners to require the hiring of a fifth kindergarten teacher. opened in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Anyone with an adult child with special needs knows how hard they can fall after they leave high school and no longer have that safety net. In school, academic and other cognitive tests are used to bring tutors, therapists and other academic supports to students who need them. Related: Teachers of the world, unite.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

“We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” said Jerome Jupiter, the former schoolteacher who heads up YEP’s educational arm, which combines tutoring with case management. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

But last summer, Cousins’ mother-in-law told her about Threshold, a program developed by a Maine charter school aimed specifically at students who’ve dropped out, and she enrolled at age 18. Rothschild serves as part teacher, part tutor for the program, visiting her 10 students’ homes for one-on-one classes each week.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Maybe teaching.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

million, or roughly 13 percent, of all public school students receive such services. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. His high school placed him on a track to get an alternative diploma, which would have made it impossible for him to enroll in most colleges or apply for most jobs. There are 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We He was formerly the principal of Edna Karr High School.

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