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/0 Comments/in News /by Jamie GassRafe Esquith on Teaching Shakespeare to Inner-City LA Students
/in Blog: Education, Featured, Podcast, Related Education Blogs /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Gerard and Cara talk with Rafe Esquith, an award-winning teacher at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles, and the founder of The Hobart Shakespeareans, who annually stage performances of unabridged plays by William Shakespeare. He shares why he founded the award-winning program to teach disadvantaged Los Angeles elementary school students a classical humanities curriculum, the most inspiring experiences and the biggest challenges of teaching highly demanding literary works to young schoolchildren from diverse backgrounds.