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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

The Hechinger Report

His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. During the 2012-13 school year, Renaissance had one of the highest suspension rates in the city.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Charles Parish outside New Orleans began talent development in 2012. Terman set the stage by writing in the 1910s that giftedness was very high intelligence, which he defined as the top 1 percent of scorers on his IQ exam, researcher Jennifer L.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

For example, as reported in Education Week, California lost 53 percent of its school of education enrollment between the 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 school years. The proportion of these teachers who are fifty or older rose from one in four (24 percent) in 1996 to 42 percent in 2005. This time-consuming work must be done in the school.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

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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