Former D.C. schools chancellor Kaya Henderson on the myth and meaning of the racial achievement gap in the city’s public schools.
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee acknowledged the gap at a news conference and listed some of the ways that school officials were addressing it, such as “ensuring that when students enter kindergarten, they have all the prerequisite skills to be successful in math every day.”
To Henderson, the disparities in test scores said more about the impact of a student’s socioeconomic status than race. So she sought ways students could use their school work to improve their communities. “At the end of the six weeks, the students were out showing their maps and essays to their parents and people in the community,” Henderson recalled. “There were school parades, with kids on bicycles with their parents riding alongside them. With their newly acquired writing and verbal skills, the kids let people in the community know what was going on in the schools, and that in itself was a very important achievement.
In 2020, Henderson resumed her focus on student achievement by co-founding, with economist Roland Fryer Jr., an online educational curriculum called Reconstruction. The lessons are designed to supplement traditional public school courses with African American history and culture, using a special focus on the Reconstruction era. It was another way of using culturally relevant curriculums to foster the “productive struggle” that children need to succeed.
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