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To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On

MindShift

Public education has a persistent and well-documented issue: the achievement gap between white students and students of color. It’s an update to a study NPR reported on in 2017 that found that black students who had just one black teacher could help them stay in school.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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Held back, but not helped

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

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The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report A significant percentage of these new students will face such substantial barriers that they won’t return for a second semester.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

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Is California saving higher education?

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Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.