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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. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 percent of the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

In February 2016, he was brought back to court to be formally arraigned. It was a week before Mardi Gras 2016. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. I refused to drop out. I hit the books hard, so that I would graduate.”.

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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. In 2016, it became the first high school created after Katrina to attain Louisiana’s coveted A grade.

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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 After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. Tackling Teacher Shortages.

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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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