KQED News Mind/Shift – Katrina Schwartz
“Duncan-Andrade is the first to admit that students need to learn to read, write, think and do math — he has a doctorate, after all. But he doesn’t think educators can close the opportunity gap if they don’t stop pretending that the conditions students live in, and what happens to them outside of school, isn’t part of being a teacher. Those experiences are a critical part of whether kids are prepared to learn or not.” (more)