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You Can’t Help Our Children If You Refuse to Be Accountable

June 21, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
4 Comments

“I am accountable for how much Black kids learn?!” I was recently asked what it would take to accelerate the achievement levels of Black students. This is a question that people have claimed to have been grappling...

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Ivory-Tower Academics: “We Study Black Kids (From Afar)”

May 14, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
6 Comments

On Feb. 10, NewsWorks published a letter from “area academics” (“SRC plan to privatize 3 Philly schools a gross overreach, inconsistent”). It is disappointing that these “area academics” selectively used data...

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The Lures of the Privileged

May 13, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
2 Comments

I wanted to weigh in on two recent articles about testing. As a current charter school principal, former Philadelphia School District teacher and principal, recent Principal Ambassador in the US Department of Education, and CEO...

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