Meanwhile, in Baltimore...

[Jolly]

Bad. Really bad.

But what is the answer?

https://www.city-journal.org/article/are-baltimore-students-better-off-staying-home

[Horace]

Lots of new racism to explain those results. Enough new racism to counteract the positive effects of all the new money, then additional new racism to keep making the students worse from there.

[jon-nyc]

The 'better off staying home' uses the same false assumption Ed Inc does, namely they believe the euphemism "bad schools", which really means "collection of poorly performing students". This issue is the quality of the human capital, by and large, not the physical building.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, in Baltimore...:

The 'better off staying home' uses the same false assumption Ed Inc does, namely they believe the euphemism "bad schools", which really means "collection of poorly performing students". This issue is the quality of the human capital, by and large, not the physical building.

At some point, the culture of the school can be an impediment to learning.