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Author Archives: Emmanuel Felton

Emmanuel Felton is a former staff writer. Prior to joining The Hechinger Report, he covered education, juvenile justice and child services for the New York World. He received a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He grew up in the music rich city of New Orleans, but learned the hard way that he had no musical talent during one very long week in middle school. Luckily, he found journalism.

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How Louisiana’s richest students go to college on the backs of the poor

by Emmanuel Felton October 30, 2019October 21, 2020

THIBODAUX, La. — Rodney Woods was on the fence about applying to Nicholls State University, a four-year public institution a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house in Louisiana’s Bayou Region, a rural area of the state dotted with sugar cane fields and mud-colored swamps. He had been on campus a few times. Both he and […]

New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?

by Emmanuel Felton May 21, 2019October 21, 2020

School district secessions gather speed, a new report shows

by Emmanuel Felton April 17, 2019March 30, 2020

Will turning schools into hubs for services help revive dying cities?

by Emmanuel Felton June 26, 2018March 30, 2020

Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

by Emmanuel Felton June 17, 2018June 22, 2020

City that loved and lost high school football finally gets it back

by Emmanuel Felton December 8, 2017October 21, 2020

Special education’s hidden racial gap

by Emmanuel Felton November 25, 2017March 30, 2020

A new attempt to answer an old question: Does single-sex education work?

by Emmanuel Felton September 24, 2017March 30, 2020

How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

by Emmanuel Felton September 6, 2017March 30, 2020

I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

by Emmanuel Felton July 10, 2017March 30, 2020

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