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Improbable Scholars - The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Paperback)
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Improbable Scholars - The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Paperback)
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No school district can be all charismatic leaders and
super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all
its teachers and principals when students do poorly. Great charter
schools can only serve a tiny minority of students. Whether we like
it or not, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in
mainstream public schools. The good news, as David L. Kirp reveals
in Improbable Scholars, is that there's a sensible way to rebuild
public education and close the achievement gap for all students.
Indeed, this is precisely what's happening in a most unlikely
place: Union City, New Jersey, a poor, crowded Latino community
just across the Hudson from Manhattan. The school district-once one
of the worst in the state-has ignored trendy reforms in favor of
proven game-changers like quality early education, a word-soaked
curriculum, and hands-on help for teachers. When beneficial new
strategies have emerged, like using sophisticated data-crunching to
generate pinpoint assessments to help individual students, they
have been folded into the mix. The results demand that we take
notice-from third grade through high school, Union City scores on
the high-stakes state tests approximate the statewide average. In
other words, these inner-city kids are achieving just as much as
their suburban cousins in reading, writing, and math. What's even
more impressive, nearly ninety percent of high school students are
earning their diplomas and sixty percent of them are going to
college. Top students are winning national science awards and full
rides at Ivy League universities. These schools are not just good
places for poor kids. They are good places for kids, period.
Improbable Scholars offers a playbook-not a prayer book-for reform
that will dramatically change our approach to reviving public
education.
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