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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. Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S. Yung Wing School’s panda mascot adorns the lobby of the school.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. We do not enrich our citizens and help ensure equal access if we pour our money into marketing and recruitment,” she said, adding that the crisis is an opportunity for people to press larger issues like “how they want the state of Ohio to spend taxpayer money.”. fell from 98th to 185th in the U.S.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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

The Hechinger Report

Though Carver’s student body had been nearly 100 percent African American for years, the school — like its sister schools in the Collegiate Academies charter-management organization — was now starting to enroll its first groups of immigrants. The intersection of immigration law and education is a murky area that few groups fully understand.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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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. They’re trying to hire more black teachers and are reaching out to alumni groups of the schools that they supplanted.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring.

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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. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. The district hired Orfield’s UCLA group to recommend changes.

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