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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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So he has no idea if they’re learning. 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. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Your stories. Ishmael Brown Jr.,

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

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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

The Hechinger Report

Now she wants others to learn that history. Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program.

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

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Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. lets them play learning games on the computer and “sometimes she gives us her phone,” King said. “We

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. Research found that a $3.5

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