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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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

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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. Related: Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. Try our Financial Fitness Tracker. chapter.

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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. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.

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

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David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation rates among participating schools had risen from 65 percent to nearly 80 percent , while dropout rates declined.

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

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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 Many Black boys don’t have a teacher who looks like them at all during their education — there doesn’t seem like there’s real access to the profession, then, for them.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

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Editor’s note: Lisette Nieves , Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at New York University, and Yolanda Gallegos of the Gallegos Legal Group contributed to this column. . Students are faced with hard decisions about where to study. Photo: Mari B. Robles Lopez. But students’ coursework isn’t the only concern.