Schools Matter: "ONLY" 59.1% Poor at School in Brooklyn

Schools Matter: "ONLY" 59.1% Poor at School in Brooklyn:

"ONLY" 59.1% Poor at School in Brooklyn

by Judy Rabin

From the New York Times

June 27, 2012

At One Brooklyn School, a Lesson in the Danger of Success

By Louise Sloan


If you believe the research, statistics and experts, it appears that my son’s elementary school, Public School 9 in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood, has been doing everything right. Middle-class, college-educated people are increasingly sending their children there because of its academic excellence, its emphasis on individualized instruction, its commitment to arts education and its progressive, inquiry-based approach.

There’s a warm, friendly feel to the place, which has recently started to more