Low-income districts find ways to help students make music. Though wealth gaps remain, more American kids at all income levels get music in school now than 20 years ago. Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting Reporters: Elizabeth Miller - OPB Lillian Mongeau - The Hechinger Report

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The students who are disappearing from college campuses the fastest are those from the middle-class, not low-income, families. The share of those from the middle has fallen at four-year institutions, while the share of students from the lowest-income and wealthiest families has risen. Colleges are trying to stop the trend. In collaboration with VPM/NPR.

The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change. By Robbie Feinberg

Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students. By Kirk Carapezza

Part-Time College Students

The first black high school in New Orleans, McDonogh 35, was a source of pride, until the chartering of the city’s schools after Hurricane Katrina contributed to its academic collapse. Now, the school board hopes turning it over to a charter organization can save it. By JESS CLARK

Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

A high school student in West Virginia talks about his career goals.

A high schooler meets with a home visitor in West Virginia

A home visitor talks to a mother about her hopes and dreams for her high school son in West Virginia.

A high school home visit in West Virginia

Jill Barshay discusses increased bullying at schools on KPFK's Deadline L.A. by The Hechinger Report - Andre Perry

Jill Barshay discusses increased bullying at schools on KPFK's Deadline L.A.

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