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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. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Bryant expects a similar proportion this year.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

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The number of indigenous Canadians grew four times faster than the rest of the population between 2006 and 2011, the most recent period for which the figure is available, and that pace is expected to continue, according to the government agency Statistics Canada. Lumina is a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.)

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

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McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. BURIEN, Wash. —

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Both parents figured Caleb would return to his neighborhood elementary school before too long. “We

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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