Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00) > Comments > "Excellent, important, must-listen radio!"
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- Emily Hanford
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- "Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)"
- Summary: This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not getting the same results with black and Latino students. This documentary tells the story of a suburban high school with lots of resources and a diverse student body that is struggling to close the minority achievement gap.
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Excellent, important, must-listen radio!
Emily Hanford
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM
This is an important, impressive program. It covers so much ground on what I think is perhaps the most important issue facing the nation. This program is smart and insightful, clear and compelling. I think it's the best explanation and exploration of the racial achievement gap I have ever heard. It goes really deep into so many inter-related issues from preschool education to the problems with tracking in high school to the nuanced and complicated way that race affects student achievement. We get to know students, teachers and administrators at one school, we hear from researchers and advocates, and all of it is carefully and knowledgeably distilled by the producer Nancy Solomon who clearly knows this topic inside and out and presents it all in a thoughtful and appropriately complex way. You should listen to this program, play it for your listeners!