In The Hobart Shakespeareans, one instructor proves again that children rise to meet expectations To find an early advocate of dumbing down the curriculum, look to Shakespeare’s Desdemona. “Those that ...

In the first two weeks of September, many public-television stations will be airing a program called “The Hobart Shakespeareans” as part of the documentary series “P.O.V.” Since that title may not ...

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The bell shrills at Hobart Elementary in the heart of Koreatown, signaling the end of the school day. The campus quickly empties, but no one budges in fifth-grade teacher Rafe Esquith’s classroom.

Brenda Gonzalez was supposed to perform in “A Winter’s Tale” in April, along with her fellow Hobart Shakespeareans. They’d been preparing all year, her mother, Angie Gonzalez, recalled Thursday.

Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Tonight on the PBS program P.O.V., much of the country will discover another teacher who has the magic. Rafe Esquith teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at Hobart Boulevard Elementary in Koreatown.