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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Video subjects ranged from reading stories to health to dance to origami.

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

The Hechinger Report

Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. 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. percent of the U.S.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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

The Hechinger Report

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. As part of that work Brown runs workshops for parents on how to advocate for their children. Not all students are as lucky.

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