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

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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 Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W. percent of the U.S.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Held back, but not helped

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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. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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