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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. It’s like a legal segregation.”.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. We are often stereotyped as having ‘good classroom management,’” Green said. “So