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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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Held back, but not helped

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.

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

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Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

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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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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov.

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

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Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story on school counselers is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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