2005 2012 Common Core Dropout 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap? A 2012 National Endowment for the Arts report underscores the benefits of exposure to the arts.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.
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