Los Angeles: The Proving Ground of Education Reform
A College-Ready Academy #7 student hurried to class minutes after the afternoon bell.
In the highly acclaimed Steven Spielberg movie, Poland’s Jewish population packed their lives into small suitcases, loaded them onto horse-drawn carts and commenced their journey to Krakow and, ultimately, into oblivion.
In the classroom, students twirled fingers around their hair, whispered behind cupped hands or sat with eyes fixated on the black-and-white pictures before them.
“Where are they going?” one student asked, a tall African-American boy who watched