Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Franz Kafka said, "A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul," but I fear that some of my students have grown accustomed to the perpetual winter of being a non-reader. I teach predominately minority students who are juniors in a high poverty urban school district. As a result of the re-structuring in the district, my school is experiencing an influx of students with very low skills, many of them young males with a history of academic failure.
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Franz Kafka said, "A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul," but I fear that some of my students have grown accustomed to the perpetual winter of being a non-reader. I teach predominately minority students who are juniors in a high poverty urban school district. As a result of the re-structuring in the district, my school is experiencing an influx of students with very low skills, many of them young males with a history of academic failure.