The Achievement Gap Is the Biggest Civil Rights Concern

Stephanie Coontz was chief equity officer in the new york city schools. She tried innovative programmes and rigorously evaluated themk data first. One of her ideas was, let's get a rare shoe that lebron james will wear. The only way to get that shoe is to make good grades in New York City public schools. We focusd grouped this with kids, and in 37 seconds, a kid looked to me and said, may i want those air nerds? That was done. But we tried other things like callet the million initiative, where we gave kid all sorts of cell phones, texted them things throughout the day to try to change culture around school.