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Low-income districts find ways to help students make music. Though wealth gaps remain, more American kids at all income levels get music in school now than 20 years ago. Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting Reporters: Elizabeth Miller - OPB Lillian Mongeau - The Hechinger Report
The students who are disappearing from college campuses the fastest are those from the middle-class, not low-income, families. The share of those from the middle has fallen at four-year institutions, while the share of students from the lowest-income and wealthiest families has risen. Colleges are trying to stop the trend. In collaboration with VPM/NPR.
How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change. By Robbie Feinberg
Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students. By Kirk Carapezza
The first black high school in New Orleans, McDonogh 35, was a source of pride, until the chartering of the city’s schools after Hurricane Katrina contributed to its academic collapse. Now, the school board hopes turning it over to a charter organization can save it. By JESS CLARK
A high school student in West Virginia talks about his career goals.
A home visitor talks to a mother about her hopes and dreams for her high school son in West Virginia.
Jill Barshay discusses increased bullying at schools on KPFK's Deadline L.A. by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
These Schools Are Opening Their Arms To Special Education Students. Can They Afford It? by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
High-paying jobs go begging while high school grads line up for bachelor’s degrees by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Decades after Columbine, how to prevent school shootings still vexes security experts by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Launch of student letter writing campaign to save the TOPS scholarship program by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Trump’s education budget defunds public schools and universities, herds students toward private and charter schools
Free College -- A new test that no student would dread — that leads to citizenship -- March 7, 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
New Orleans has had plenty of school choice in the last decade, but vulnerable students have been left behind
Education groups aimed at uplifting black students should not be the black face of her agenda.
Free College -- School choice shouldn't take away our neighborhood schools -- Jan. 31, 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Students must prepare for Betsy Devos -- Jan. 24, 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Put youth who break the law where they belong — in a great school -- Jan 17 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Why one high school and its mascot are a symbol of national division -- Jan 10 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Want to help support public education? Support journalism -- Jan. 3, 2017 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Youth aren’t props — they need an actual seat at the policy table -- Dec. 6, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Democrats: Stop calling Trump names if you support his policies -- Nov. 29, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- What Will Trump Do? -- Nov. 15, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Election Day show -- Nov 8, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Black kids deserve the stability that neighborhood schools offer -- October 25, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Behind thousands of school “walk-ins,” a simple request -- October 11, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Wraparound services do a lot – but they aren’t the solution -- October 4, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Free College -- Students have the right to receipts for pledging allegiance -- September 20, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
Rhetoric can’t hide a failure to address inequality
Let’s end the cycle of blaming black families in all cities
Let’s give our kids a fighting chance
Free College -- Flooding in Louisiana -- August 23, 2016 by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry
The stakes are high. So why is involvement so low?
Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families.
Lessons from LSU in the face of conflict.
In the national pursuit to create better high schools, we seldom turn to art schools for inspiration. But innovation can be found in our conservatories. That’s what I found when I spent a semester at an art school.
The urgency of protecting LGBTQ youth has now been revealed. It is eerily prescient that two days before Sunday’s terror attack aimed at the gay community in Orlando, Florida, black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, sexually questioning and queer young adults gathered in Washington, D.C. for the first Summit on African American LGBTQ Youth.
Taking the “grow your own” ethic seriously, at Paul Quinn College’s African American Leadership Institute
Sensitivities and cultural competency offer new ways of seeing for white students.
A positive school climate boosts student achievement. It includes a system of supportive and caring teachers, a safe learning environment, student connectedness and parental involvement. Since conditions like these support the interests of a school’s major stakeholders, it is very important for them to know if they’re in a positive climate. That’s why educators need to measure school climate, according to “Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,” a new study in Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
Funding problems still plague Louisiana’s benchmark scholarship program and none of the proposed ideas are solutions. The Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarships can’t cover the nearly 51,000 students who receive some form of TOPS aid while it falls $72 million short of the $300 million it needs for full funding. The sad truth is that we will need to reduce the number of students receiving TOPS scholarships. What is unacceptable, however, is excluding low-income students from that number.
Firing thousands of female teachers and expelling black girls props up patriarchy
Immigration policy is to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton what health care was to President Obama.
“I see my child about to die every day.” That’s what one despondent mother told me when she phoned looking for help for her teenage boy; all she wanted was for her son to get out of the drug game. Tattoos, the smoke-blackened lips and sagging pants were the in-the-face reality experienced by this mother. “He’s wearing the uniform of someone going to die,” she told me.
10/18/2016 -- Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well-financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend.
August 10, 2016: Why the Black Lives Matter movement has to take on charter schools Free College is an hour-long call-in talk show hosted by Andre Perry and sponsored by the Hechinger Report. Every Tuesday at 3 PM on WBOK 1230 AM Free College shares information that empowers people to make sense of schools and colleges. It also offers news to help schools make sense for the lives of children, families and communities. In addition, Free College addresses the challenges our men and boys of color face everyday.
May 17, 2016: Do you really believe all children can learn? Then stop disciplining black students out of the system Free College is an hour-long call-in talk show hosted by Andre Perry and sponsored by the Hechinger Report. Every Tuesday at 3 PM on WBOK 1230 AM Free College shares information that empowers people to make sense of schools and colleges. It also offers news to help schools make sense for the lives of children, families and communities. In addition, Free College addresses the challenges our men and boys of color face everyday.
May 3, 2016: We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think Free College is an hour-long call-in talk show hosted by Andre Perry and sponsored by the Hechinger Report. Every Tuesday at 3 PM on WBOK 1230 AM Free College shares information that empowers people to make sense of schools and colleges. It also offers news to help schools make sense for the lives of children, families and communities. In addition, Free College addresses the challenges our men and boys of color face everyday.
May 10, 2016: The foster care system is pushing college students into homelessness Free College is an hour-long call-in talk show hosted by Andre Perry and sponsored by the Hechinger Report. Every Tuesday at 3 PM on WBOK 1230 AM Free College shares information that empowers people to make sense of schools and colleges. It also offers news to help schools make sense for the lives of children, families and communities. In addition, Free College addresses the challenges our men and boys of color face everyday.
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