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The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
11 December 2020
United States
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Under the Obama administration, the Promise Neighborhoods initiative was launched. It granted over $430 million in multiyear grants to nonprofits across 17 cities. The success of these grants have been difficult to me...
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
1 June 2020
Metaire, Louisiana, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
When the John Q. Adams Middle School in Louisiana received a D rating, a new principal stepped in to restructure and address the ongoing issues with staff and students and was seeing success—but that changed when the ...
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
19 April 2020
United States
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As schools have gone online during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and administrators are finding low-tech ways to deliver educational lessons to the students without access to remote learning tools, such as basic int...
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
3 September 2019
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
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At Capital City Public Charter School, students are graded based not only on academic skills but also social and emotional skills. The Washington D.C. school has a high graduation rate and college enrollment rate.
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
29 April 2019
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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At Cambridge Street Upper School, teachers, many of whom are white, meet regularly to discuss their own implicit biases and how they play out in a school in which 60 percent of students identify as black, Latino, or m...
The Hechinger Report
Amadou Diallo
11 April 2018
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Two schools in New York and Washington state are breaking the traditional high school mold by combining college preparation with career and technical education. Amadou Diallo writes, "Debating whether kids need hands-...
Christian Science Monitor
Amadou Diallo
5 December 2017
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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In high-poverty urban schools student retention is a major issue, often school is the last concern for these children. Now, City Year and other nonprofits have university students come to the high schools and tutor or...
Christian Science Monitor
Amadou Diallo
21 November 2017
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Benito Juarez Community Academy in Chicago was once reputed for gang violence, struggled to support its predominantly minority students, and was had been on academic probation for nearly two decades. A revolutionary a...
Christian Science Monitor
Amadou Diallo
16 November 2017
Ohio, United States
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High school students in rural areas show lower rates of college degrees and have fewer opportunities such as not having a dual enrolment program that allows them to take college courses while in high school. Ohio Appa...
The Atlantic
Amadou Diallo
18 July 2017
Buffalo, New York, United States
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In a Buffalo school district where many students from low-income families struggled with trauma, attendance, and the effects of poverty, a non-profit initiative called Say Yes to Education is implementing drastic chan...
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