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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. One goal of that early-algebra trend was to get more kids through calculus and onto a STEM degree track.

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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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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2 Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. percent national average.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Morial Convention Center on May 14, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill.

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