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Currently Reading Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Review: A Dream Team Teaches Kids Math, the Alphabet and Integration Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Review: A Dream Team Teaches Kids Math, the Alphabet and Integration
Marilyn Agrelo s sweeping look at the origins and impact of the revolutionary kids show transcends nostalgia, documenting television and cultural history alike.
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Black students are among those who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 school closures.JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF
Data has continuously shown that Black and Hispanic communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which also applies to minority students education.
After reviewing fall semester test scores from 4.4 million public school students in grades 3-8, a study from academic non-profit NWEA found that a majority of students scored at pre-pandemic levels in reading, but not minority or poor students. Instead, these group saw small declines, including in Houston.
Vaccine data troubles raise equity concerns for Black, Latino Texans
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Barbara Washington, 65, receives a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Friday in an Alamodome drive-thru line.Photos by Jessica Phelps / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Medical staff welcome motorists at the COVID-19 vaccination drive through at Delmar Stadium on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Houston. The site is operated in a partnership between the city and United Memorial Medical Center.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Recently vaccinated people wait for 15 minutes after getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at HOPE Clinic in Houston on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less