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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. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017.

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

The Hechinger Report

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. His family said that police had picked him up.

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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. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. All the things we do are in service to that. I mean sports. I mean arts.

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

The Hechinger Report

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. Nationally, 3.3

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. I was proud to be a part of a community,” he said. That’s something that I always wanted to be in.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

The Hechinger Report

Consequently, mainland colleges must open their doors as they did for New Orleans co-eds who could not return to their campuses in the immediate aftermath of Katrina in 2005; there is a blueprint. But students’ coursework isn’t the only concern. The intellectual capital of Puerto Rico hangs in the balance.