Will I Ever Come Back to This?

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I plan to die on this hill. I will be fighting for these kids every single day. 100 hours a week. It's just what I want to do. And my only wish for us is that we had more young scholars who wanted to do it. Because we have some and I've had many students over the years. The focus has never gone away. We'll talk about the venture stuff later that's just a way to accelerate impact.

The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is that it's hard work--and implementing it won't win you any popularity contests. Listen as the MacArthur Genius Award Winner and John Bates Clark medalist speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how pizza parties revealed the potential of incentives to improve students' test scores, and why he's far more concerned about closing the racial achievement gap than keeping the love of learning pure. He also discusses the five best practices of successful schools, and why it's his failures far more than his successes that keep him in this fight.