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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. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. What can that look like? When Dan D.

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How to help struggling young readers

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Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BRONX, N.Y. —

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

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.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. More on Claypool’s resignation from WaPo’s Valerie Strauss.