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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. Renaissance lost four grueling non-division games in a row. “We When we started to take losses, I could see people starting to get down.”.

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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. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits.

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