The High-Speed Preschool Experiment
In some districts, free summer “crash courses” are trying to meet the needs of students who can’t afford to attend traditional pre-K programs.
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Patrick Wall / The Hechinger Report The Privilege of School Choice
When given the chance, will wealthy parents ever choose to desegregate schools?
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Betsy DeVos Could End the School-Integration Comeback
Federal attention to classroom diversity made a resurgence in the final months of the Obama administration. Will the established programs peter out?
Elise Amendola / AP One Principal, Two Schools
Some education leaders in New York City have been tasked with simultaneously leading both high- and low-performing campuses—with mixed results.
Patrick Wall / Chalkbeat New York City's Great Middle-School Divide
How a series of choices has deepened the segregation of Brooklyn’s schools
Patrick Wall / Chalkbeat How to Get More Men of Color Teaching in the Classroom
Only 8 percent of educators are nonwhite males in New York City, where Asian, black, and Hispanic boys make up 43 percent of public-school students. A new program is trying to change that.
John Bazemore / AP Why Non-Academic Needs Matter, Too
A day in the life of a new kind of educator who’s tasked with revitalizing one of New York City's campuses by supporting kids' health, attendance, and family lives
Patrick Wall / Chalkbeat How Can Schools Adapt to Gentrification?
A struggling campus in Brooklyn is becoming selective and moving to a new high-rise building to appeal to middle-class families.
Two Trees Management The Problem With ‘Ed-Opt’ Schools
How one promising strategy to integrate New York City’s campuses only wound up with the lowest performers
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