A Year Of Love And Struggle
When Ron Brown College Preparatory High School – a new boys-only, public school in Washington, D.C. – opened its doors in August 2016 to a class of roughly 100 freshmen of color, NPR’s Cory Turner and Education Week’s Kavitha Cardoza spent hundreds of reporting hours capturing the school’s journey. This is their story.
Although CSA does not necessarily endorse or practice all the policies highlighted in the podcast, we are actively engaged in a lot of the themes on display: diverse faculty, anti-suspension strategies, a nurturing community, and acknowledging the important and intersecting forces of race, class and gender.