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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

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. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. When Mann created an engineering department, nearly half of all freshmen chose engineering as an elective. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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The complex world of pre-K play

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Shareece DeLeon, a teacher at Impact Public School’s Salish Sea Elementary, accepts plastic food items from one of her students during a 90-minute block of play time. Impact Salish Sea Elementary, in south Seattle, is one of three charter schools run by Impact Public Schools. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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How one Chicago high school turned the corner using full-time internships

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With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.