Sublime

Diane Ravitch in her magisterial review, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.

from good intentions to good practice.

Well before the gift to Newark, Priscilla Chan had made a personal cause of working with children like those who struggled the most in Newark. As a pediatrician caring for underserved children, she became convinced that schools, on their own, were unlikely to meet the needs of students raised amid extreme poverty and violence. Working with educator

The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

Dan Rothstein; you can read more about his foundation’s work and techniques in his book Make Just One Change.

Zeitlin had discovered that even the most destitute communities had successful outliers: families that had figured out a way to raise healthy children despite their bleak circumstances. Zeitlin called these individuals “positive deviants”—individuals or families who somehow managed to deviate from the health norms of the community in a good way.