School reform discussed at Bronx Education Summit
Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 4:00 AM
The Bronx became the city's No.1 education destination over the weekend when the best and the brightest gathered to propel a strategy for school reform.
The first annual Bronx Education Summit attracted a range of opposing views, with Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott pitted against keynote speaker Diane Ravitch, an outspoken critic of charter schools and mayoral control of the city school system.
Walcott first took the stage, proving to have a calm, easygoing presence, but it was Ravitch who rallied the hundreds of educators, parents and community members into frequent bursts of chants and cheers.
"More students are graduating New York City schools, but most of them are not prepared for college or for the modern workplace,
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