Emmanuel Felton
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New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?
Residents argue over what the return to a locally run district means for accountability and democracy for New Orleans schools in this all-charter city → Read More
School district secession gathers speed in several states
Hechinger Report and The Nation investigated a 2017 school district secession effort in Alabama. A new report by EdBuild shows how common they have become → Read More
Using schools — and collective impact — to bring a dying city back to life
Test scores are rising in East St. Louis after it launched a new model for lifting families out of poverty: Connect them with any services they may need. → Read More
Using schools — and collective impact — to bring a dying city back to life
Test scores are rising in East St. Louis after it launched a new model for lifting families out of poverty: Connect them with any services they may need. → Read More
Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than nearby district schools
Nearly 750 public charter schools around the country, one in nine of all charters, — enroll a higher percentage of white students than the traditional public schools in the school districts where they are located. These charters use tactics, like expensive uniforms or attendance zones, that limit who can attend. → Read More
Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than nearby district schools
Nearly 750 public charter schools around the country, one in nine of all charters, — enroll a higher percentage of white students than the traditional public schools in the school districts where they are located. These charters use tactics, like expensive uniforms or attendance zones, that limit who can attend. → Read More
How Some States Are Planning to Compensate the Communities Most Devastated by the War on Drugs
Across the country, there's a growing movement for economic empowerment through legalization. → Read More
Gang Databases Are a Life Sentence for Black and Latino Communities
Ending up on a gang database if you're brown or black is easy—you only have to be suspected of association. Getting off a gang database? That's much harder. → Read More
The Billionaire Funding Victims' Rights Campaigns Across the Country
Marsy's Law advocates for the rights of the families of murder victims, and the billionaire behind the measure wants it to spread nationwide. But many say the law is unfairly broad. → Read More
City that loved and lost high school football finally gets it back
Video by Emrys Eller and Alden Nusser NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward … → Read More
Special education’s hidden racial gap
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Read the whole series, “Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Sign up for our newsletter. WASHINGTON — At the age of 3, Tyrone … → Read More
A new attempt to answer an old question: Does single-sex education work?
WASHINGTON — “I am the pink flower” is not the kind of thing a ninth grade boy usually says with a straight face, especially not in a room filled with other teenage boys. But the young men in Schalette Gudger’s English class at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, a new all-boys public school in … → Read More
The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools –
On weekends, North Smithfield Manor smells like freshly cut grass, as men venture out under the Alabama sun to tend to their lawns. Kids race their bikes up and down the neighborhood’s hilly streets. Leslie Williams, a 34-year-old mother of three, lives in her childhood home in this secluded subdivision, perched atop a ridge five miles north of downtown Birmingham. The neighborhood hasn’t… → Read More
How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision
On weekends, North Smithfield Manor smells like freshly cut grass, as men venture out under the Alabama sun to tend to their lawns. Kids race their bikes up and down the neighborhood’s hilly streets. Leslie Williams, a 34-year-old mother of three, lives in her childhood home in this secluded subdivision, perched atop a ridge five … → Read More
Nearly Two-Thirds of New Science Educators Lack Training in Their Subjects
The finding was part of a new study that looks at whether the No Child Left Behind reduced the practice of out-of-field teaching in science classrooms. → Read More
Nearly Two-Thirds of New Science Educators Lack Training in Their Subjects
The finding was part of a new study that looks at whether the No Child Left Behind reduced the practice of out-of-field teaching in science classrooms. → Read More
I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?
I was a statistical anomaly growing up in New Orleans: a black boy from a relatively well-off family in a city with one of the widest racial wealth gaps in the country. My childhood included yearly trips abroad and private schools for which my parents paid full freight. Those facts often put me in awkward … → Read More
Fresno Teachers Demand Right to Call Cops on Students in New Contract
The teachers say district's alternatives to suspensions and expulsions are making classrooms less safe. → Read More
Fresno Teachers Demand Right to Call Cops on Students in New Contract
The teachers say district's alternatives to suspensions and expulsions are making classrooms less safe. → Read More
Why a North Carolina District Went All the Way to Oklahoma to Recruit Teachers
Guilford County Schools recruiters traveled 1,000 miles west to downtown Oklahoma City to host a two-day teacher fair. → Read More