May 10, 2021
Many students at Farrington High have fallen behind academically as the school year comes to an end after months of online learning and pandemic-related disruptions.
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Just down the road, students at Honolulu Community College need jobs and experience.
The two Kalihi institutions decided to join forces by having the college students serve as tutors for the high schoolers in one of several initiatives aimed at helping Hawaii s youth catch up so the next school year can get off to a strong start.
Subscribe We know that high dosage tutoring is a really effective intervention, said Alex Harris, vice president of programs at Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which is funding the project. We know efforts like ours can help hundreds of kids, but (in) the state of where we are, we need to be helping tens of thousands of kids, and the only way to do that is a concerted public focus.
ANDREW DESTIN Special to The Express AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins
The Echo Theater is seen on Dec. 10 in Laurens, S.C. The Echo Project is working to renovate the building that once housed the racist Redneck Shop into a community center and racial reconciliation museum. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara
Dialysis patients Jorge Aldana, 63, right, and John Diaz, 27, work in a vegetable garden during an agro-therapy session at El Tunal Hospital in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 14. Rev. Don Grant Giuseppe Cacace, Pool via AP
In this Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 file photo, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates after wining the Formula One race in Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. Hamilton is now a âSirâ as well as a seven-time Formula One champion after being knighted Wednesday, Dec. 30 in Queen Elizabeth IIâs New Year honors list.
Bellefonte, Pa. â The sound of an imitation war whoop echoes throughout Rogers Stadium.
Itâs the kind of sound used in old Hollywood westerns, the sound children playing âCowboys and Indiansâ might make as they move their hands over their mouths. When Bellefonte high plays Penns Valley in an early October football game, fans let out the cry as the Red Raiders rush onto the field. To the fans itâs just another Friday night, as it has been since 1936. Others in town would definitely not approve.
Kathryn Pletcher, of Bellefonte, Pa., poses for a portrait at the Arboretum at Penn State on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Pletcher, a descendent of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe of the Ojibwe people, is one of the foremost voices advocating for the change of Bellefonte Area High Schoolâs mascot, the Red Raiders.