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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. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning.

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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

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. lets them play learning games on the computer and “sometimes she gives us her phone,” King said. “We

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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

The Hechinger Report

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. Research found that a $3.5

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