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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program. Driving Innovation Award: Hyundai Motor America.

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

The Hechinger Report

When the fledgling club first traveled to Atlanta in 2011 for JTF, it was invited to perform on the festival’s main stage, in front of 6,000 people, and as iTheatrics founder Timothy Allen McDonald put it, “they got a standing ovation and brought down the house.” Most high schools, he said, already have some sort of theater program.)

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. West Philadelphia High School’s current building opened in 2011.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. Only a third of students with disabilities who enroll in four-year colleges graduate within eight years, according to a 2011 federal study. Sign up for our newsletter. MONROVIA, Calif.