Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools,Used

Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools,Used

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No school district can be all charismatic leaders and superteachers. 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 districtonce one of the worst in the statehas ignored trendy reforms in favor of proven gamechangers like quality early education, a wordsoaked curriculum, and handson help for teachers. When beneficial new strategies have emerged, like using sophisticated datacrunching to generate pinpoint assessments to help individual students, they have been folded into the mix.The results demand that we take noticefrom third grade through high school, Union City scores on the highstakes state tests approximate the statewide average. In other words, these innercity 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 playbooknot a prayer bookfor reform that will dramatically change our approach to reviving public education.

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