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

The Hechinger Report

Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”. She knew his potential.

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

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Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. There’s absolutely a market pressure for a more efficient program,” said Mike Goldstein, managing director of the education consulting firm Tyton Partners. Nobody talks about that.”.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Read the stories.

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Held back, but not helped

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As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. She became chronically absent and lethargic when she was in class. “I

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Classrooms went without certified teachers or materials.

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

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Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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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. School leaders, many who were educators in New Orleans before Katrina, never alienated alumni. From 3:30 to 6 p.m.

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