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

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Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Then Covid decimated them.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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It is known for its liberal arts programs, including journalism — Roger Ailes, Clarence Page, Peter King and TV sports reporter Allie LaForce are grads — and, more recently, for business and health care. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. Additional reporting by Donovan Lynch. is the state’s and region’s oldest public campus.

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

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Photo by Noah Willman for 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. Photo by Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. Rhodes was determined to do something.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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Photo: Emmanuel Felton/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. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report. The Lessons of Frederick Douglass.

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

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Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The post PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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