Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. 2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D.

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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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Maitri Learning

JULY 13, 2024

We hope you’ll find this series helpful no matter whether your teaching in a public school, a private school, a homeschool, or a Montessori environment. Jenny takes an innovative and practical approach that offers fresh perspectives on how to use our language learning tools.

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Smithsonian's History Explorer

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The semi-autobiographical graphic novel tells the story of a 12-year-old black boy, Jordan Banks, who experiences culture shock when he enrolls at a private school.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

But she suspected that a private school or public school outside of Kansas might work well for her. “I really did not know where I stood academically,” she says. Hunsucker’s teachers and guidance counselors encouraged students to think only about in-state colleges, she recalls.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. As in many Delta communities, the town’s private school was founded in 1965 —the same year the community’s public schools began desegregation. To find their white peers you’ll have to drive over to Indianola Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In cities like New York, where students can choose among public schools, public charters and private schools, a theme can be a way for a program to stand out from the competition.

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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

MAY 6, 2019

In the last few years, three of the city’s most selective public high schools — Brooklyn Technical, Bard College and Townshend Harris — have sent teachers to learn about twice exceptionality from employees of the Quad Preparatory School, a six-year-old private school that focuses on educating these students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Invest in the schools doing the bulk of equity work. Far greater numbers of Black, Latino and Native American students are enrolled at public and private schools with moderately selective to open admission practices than at elite colleges. Here are some ways we can help: 1.

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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? Related: Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

million — number of public and private school students stuck at home during the pandemic. million public and private school students stuck at home. million public and private school students stuck at home. Until the coronavirus happened.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

In Reggio-inspired schools, children are viewed as capable of constructing their own learning when guided by a skilled teacher who understands the importance of harnessing the natural curiosity of young children. Related: Will the real Montessori please stand up?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Charter schools similarly involve state financing, allocated to state-chartered, privately managed and operated schools, which typically face at least somewhat tighter state oversight and regulation than purely “private” schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. When our children do not learn, we are forced to seek alternative solutions, but few of us can afford tutors or private schools with curriculums seated in the science of reading, and fewer still can afford to homeschool.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

So-called education reformers trumpeted the success of the city’s post-Katrina experiment that replaced nearly all of the locally controlled public schools with charter schools but it was controversial. The charter schools were run by private organizations, similar to private schools, but publicly financed.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I She represents a growing number of Muslim families who are forgoing the public school system.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Owens speculates that other school choice policies, such as the option to attend any public school within a district or the creation of new magnet schools, may have played a role, but she doesn’t have the data to prove that. It’s hard to say how the numbers will look 10 years from now.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Merlyn Mind’s AI assistant, Origin, was piloted by thousands of teachers nationwide this past school year, including Thompson and three other teachers at the Ron Clark Academy.

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Maitri Learning

MARCH 20, 2023

parents, homeschoolers, people working with dementia, early childhood, adolescence, in public/private schools, administrators, etc.). The Montessori Research Pool will allow researchers to find a broad range of participants that precisely match their study’s focus (e.g.,

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Maitri Learning

MARCH 20, 2023

parents, homeschoolers, people working with dementia, early childhood, adolescence, in public/private schools, administrators, etc.). The Montessori Research Pool will allow researchers to find a broad range of participants that precisely match their study’s focus (e.g.,

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Bringing the process of BrandED thinking into the school''s plan transforms and energizes. Image credit: [link] A school leader can create a more connected community by leading the charge to develop a school brand. Private school and college leaders have used brand thinking for years to message their faithful communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

Troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Private schools in particular, Weissbourd said, “to be attractive to parents, need to be able to tout how many of their students went to selective colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

And while it launched just as the coronavirus was grabbing international attention, it will start working with more schools just as they are addressing glaring gaps in educational progress as a result of months of remote learning. Already, the institute has projects under way with a handful of public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle became personal, with some criticizing her $5,000-an-hour consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school. In the battle to quash the framework, critics attacked Boaler for trying to institute “ woke ” mathematics.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Charlotte In Charlotte, North Carolina, the school districts have been seeing a decline in white residents with slight increase in the proportion of Hispanic, Black and Asian residents. Source: American Community Survey. Visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 3, 2020

Finally , for those of you who are considering participating in a ‘pandemic pod’ with other families or sending your students to the private school down the road, please don’t. We need everyone’s support (and money) for the public schools during this challenging time.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. Teachers, school administrators and academic leaders in public and private schools have been seeking our services to cope with their chronic fatigue.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Researchers tracked students who won kindergarten seats in 2009 and 2010, and monitored their test scores through sixth grade, comparing them with students who also wanted to attend these schools but lost the lottery. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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