NPR's OnPoint Discusses the Top High School List

Anthony Brooks [Listen: 20MB mp3]:

Mention public education in the United States and the word "reform" is soon to follow. The need to reform the nation's schools is almost as old as public education itself. Invariably the debate about how to improve public schools focuses on what's wrong with them.

But across the country there are examples of schools that work; classrooms abuzz with creativity and the excitement of learning. They're run by committed teachers, overseen by innovative principals and supported involved parents.

Participants include:

• Jay Mathews, Contributing Editor for Newsweek Magazine and Education Reporter for the Washington Post
• Robert Schwartz, Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Michael Satarino, Principal of Talented and Gifted Magnet School in Dallas, TX - Newsweek's #1 public high school in the United States
• Spencer Kern, senior at Martin Luther King school in Nashville, TN, Newsweek's #39 public high school in the United States

Background links: Newsweek's top 1138 high school list, and Jay Matthews on Why AP Matters.

Andrew Rotherham has more.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 5, 2006 6:53 PM
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