Why are these new paternalistic schools the most promising means yet for closing the nations achievement gap?
I don’t know of any other educational interventions that come close to eliminating the achievement gap in middle-school or eliminating the attainment gap in high school for low-income minority students. Even the most successful education interventions modestly narrow the achievement gap. These schools, thankfully, are succeeding in closing or almost closing the achievement gap. They provide a rare reason for optimism about education reform in the nation’s ghettos and barrios.
