Academic Standards Dropout Elementary Training 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. A lack of understanding often results in an assumption that students can’t handle academic material.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 28, 2021
Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. In five years of training residents at NTR, we’ve found many people with the potential to become amazing teachers if given the training, support and opportunity to do so.
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