Title: How The Other Half Learns Pdf Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
Author: Robert Pondiscio
Published Date: 2019
Page: 384
“Robert Pondiscio is one of our nation’s most astute observers of K-12 education. In this engaging, wise, and enormously well reported book, he trains his penetrating eye on Success Academy, the highest performing charter network in America. Having spent a year at one of the schools, he methodically unpacks the ‘magic’ that makes Success so successful, while not shying away from legitimate criticism. The result is both compelling and illuminating.”—Joel Klein, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education; author of Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools "Engrossing, challenging, and wise, this book will change how you think about schooling and poverty."—Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology, University of Virginia; author of Why Don't Students Like School?“Do not miss this fusion of a masterful writer and one of the most interesting leaders in education today. Pondiscio observes, respects, and illuminates the real work that teachers, students and parents do every day.”—David Coleman, CEO of the College Board“A moving and dramatic story and a minute-by-minute account of how a school actually lives. In a field dominated by dry-as-bones analyses, this is an up close look at education as lived by real, flesh and blood students, with names, written by a dedicated teacher. It is arresting, informative, and compelling. A school succeeds or fails by its ethos, and reading this book qualifies as an extended visit into the inner workings of that ethos in schools that are succeeding against the odds.”—William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education; author of The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories Robert Pondiscio is senior fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a former inner-city public school teacher. He writes and speaks extensively on education and education reform issues and has more than twenty years of journalism experience, including senior positions at Time and BusinessWeek.
The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox.
Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?
A accessible inside portrait of the workings of an exemplary charter school system An illuminating addition to the ongoing argument about how to address America’s distressed educational system. How the Other Half Learns is purposefully light on theory, philosophy and systems making it accessible and engaging for the lay reader – ordinary Americans who have a personal but not professional concern about state of the country’s K-through-12 education system. For this book, the author was granted access to one of the most successful, and therefore, controversial charter school systems in the country – the New York, New Jersey region’s Success Academy. The result is a close-up look at the day-to-day-to day-to-day-to-day, incessant pace of life inside an academic system that, since its founding, has defied all norms of student achievement. Pondiscio is careful to keep himself out of the way both in his role as an observer and as the writer. The narrative is structured to allow the administrators, teachers, parents and, by far not the least, the young scholars (as they are consistently referred to at the Academy) whose futures are being shaped by this experiment, tell the story. In the end, Pondiscio makes a compelling case for charter schools being one of the best options we have for making the promise of equality in education a reality. Regardless of where you stand on the debate over charter schools – a blood-sucking leech on public education resources or a lifeline to black and brown children in under-served communities, it is hard to read this book and not have your settled opinion shaken more than a little bit.How A Very Successful School Operates! Author Pondiscio doesn't believe Success schools cherry-pick pupil, but they do somewhat cherry-pick parents - via an entry process requiring several steps (eg. buying a uniform - school will help, providing documents, attending school background presentations) that discourage those parents who are least committed. It's as tough on parents as it is on pupils.He's supportive of a belief that disorder, not violence or poverty per se, is the fatal undoing of urban schools in poor neighborhoods. Contrary to the attitude of others, Success Academy 'sweats the small stuff' - eg. proper uniform, classroom attention and movement. A premium is placed on classroom management. Good classroom management facilitates eg. a teacher pulling out a group of six pupils for special work while the remaining 24 continue assigned tasks. Curriculum is centrally established, not teacher selected. (Also facilitates useful professional development discussions.)CRDO reports (2017) charter schools following the CMO model nationally contribute an average 17 days/year of math learning, 17 in reading. 80 extra days math and 29 days reading in NYC. Success Academy gains were 228 math, 120 reading - but based on only 168 students out of 14,000 for matching difficulty reasons. Icahn Charter students received an equivalent of 171 additional days of Math learning, 46 in reading, KIPP NYC, Uncommon Schools and Democracy Prep all posted gains equivalent to about 100 days in math and 50 in reading.Public school critics contend public schools operate in a 'flavor of the month' manner.'Excelling' in education starts with ethics, then outcomes. Problem teachers who don't respond to coaching are quickly replaced. Interim pupil-progress assessments occur 5X/year, and the results are reviewed locally and at headquarters. Nothing gets Moskowitz more riled up than problems with pupil safety.Parents of children through 2nd-grade are required to read to their children - 6 books/week, practice spelling words with their children. Parent 'report-cards' are also sent home.Students entering SUCCESS after Kindergarten are assessed and assigned an appropriate grade.SUCCESS has had problems at the high-school level - starting with getting students admitted into selective NYC high-schools. (None the first year or so.) Only 16 of its 73 inaugural class made it through graduation. Moskowitz focuses on admission to 'quality' colleges.Success Academy paid for an online PrepScholar platform so they could have free access to the kind of SAT prep that wealthy families buy. Rising seniors had to finish 10 half-hour lessons every week on PrepScholar during the summer. Teacher turnover, per Success Academy, is about 17% (ignoring transfers within system), vs. about 6% for the area public schools.KIPP initially found only 33% of its middle-school students graduated from 4-year colleges within 6 years of graduation from high-school, vs. 31% nationally and only 8% for low-income students. KIPP then decided to focus on graduation, not just admission. All but one senior completed the assignments.A Page-Turning Look at a Unique Subject — Reads Like a Novel How the Other Half Learns is a fascinating, insightful, and emotional read. Robert Pondiscio has beautifully paired his deep knowledge of education policy with his background as a reporter to write a page-turning, thought-provoking book about something we rarely hear about: what actually happens inside a school all day. And it’s a one-of-a-kind read!I have no doubt that a lot of the reviews of this book will morph into reviews of the Success Academies model, and whether readers like it or hate it. But regardless of where you stand, Pondiscio’s remarkable reporting and story-telling abilities deserve great credit. You’ll read this book and feel like you know the teachers, administrators, parents, and kids (scholars!) that he trailed for a year. You are rooting for them to succeed! You are wincing when they encounter obstacles. And you find yourself rethinking your own biases and school experiences, too.As for the schools themselves, after reading this book, I take issue with the media’s characterization of Success Academies as “controversial,” and that’s not because I agree with everything these schools do. How is a school network that has parents lined up to get their children accepted, by lottery, somehow more “controversial” than the nearby schools that parents desperately do NOT want their children to attend?
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