Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically
different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood
spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides
of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a
misunderstanding of their supposed "potential." The gap between the
two friends widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an
elite college degree across the country studying educational
opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an
underresourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve
the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and
administrative ambivalence. He was disabused of the Hollywood myth
that a good teacher could simply save the day, when each false
start with his students forced him to reckon with how much he
didn't know. After Reid assigned students a project to create a
positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could
make a bigger difference. While an individual's efforts are no
match against entrenched systems, Reid learned firsthand that a
community of people powered by data can effect change. This lesson
motivated him to found Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS), a
nationwide nonprofit dedicated to finding the students who were
overlooked, discouraged, or otherwise missing from higher-level
classes. As EOS became more successful, partnering with major
philanthropies, universities, and even the White House, Reid
grappled with his role as a leader. Only through the efforts of,
first, his students in South Carolina, and later his team at EOS,
would he come to understand, and begin to overcome, the limitations
of his vision. Informed by extensive new data on educational
opportunity in America, The Kid Across the Hall is a powerful story
of learning and unlearning; of leading and learning to follow.
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