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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. South Dakota and Alaska, for instance, have a combined 46,000 Native children, fewer than 300 of whom, 0.6 percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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