In Brett Helm's post of March 23, 2011 he asked what a college going culture looked like.  Brett went on to detail a framework for determining what aspects go into creating that culture.  Recently, Brett and I had the opportunity to put this framework into practice by surveying school stakeholders and visiting one of our high schools in NYC.  Here is a snapshot of what we found.

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A current hot trend in the school reform debate centers on the time we spent educating students and how that time is scheduled.

As usual with education debates, evaluation of what the data means is somewhat mixed.
Over the course of the past few years, efforts to reform…

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Yesterday I had dinner with a young lady who just completed her 2nd year at Howard University.  This young lady is from the great city, Chicago, and is an alumnus of Richard T. Crane Technical Preparatory High School.  Why is this important?  Well not only am I from Chicago but I graduated from that same high school ages ago.

Long story short, our dinner hangout was long overdue.  From the conversation I learned that…

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