A few years ago, two prominent economists published a really important paper called the missing wone offs. They explained that there was a small pool of low income, high achieving students who were already fully tapped. Eric eisner started yes almost 20 years ago at an ele middle school in a place called lennox,. which is this small, heavily hispanic community of about 20 thousand people.
Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to universities appropriate to their gifts. America leaves an enormous amount of talent on the table every year. “Carlos Doesn’t Remember” explains why.
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