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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. The state enforced strict policies to retain children who failed high stakes tests, ballooning the ranks of those who were held back. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. math-teaching?experts.?

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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. 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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Who will Teach the Children?

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Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. By Franklin Schargel. The United States faces a serious educational crisis. What can be done to stop the hemorrhaging of these trained and certified educators?

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Their absence in classrooms is deeply felt, especially in states like South Carolina where almost a fifth of students are Black. While teacher vacancies are affecting all educators, experts say if South Carolina wants its Black students to succeed, it can’t afford to lose any more Black men in the classroom.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

The Hechinger Report

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. . This is a classroom in which the most important lessons are learned through doing. Photo: Mari B. Robles Lopez.