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Refusing to Leave Children Behind

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October 11, 2007
By Eric Kelsey, Utne.com 
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"It's almost like everybody is looking for that magic wand," Brush's superintendent, William Zelei, tells the Plain Dealer. "It's about trying to understand what the barriers are to black males achieving. Support the kids or knock down those barriers." Zelei's work has paid off; Brush has twice won the prestigious Schott Foundation for Public Education's Award for Excellence in the Education of African-American Male Students. But perhaps the school's most important distinction has been closing achievement gaps between races and classes by opening advanced placement and honors courses to most students. "They're in the business of not changing the way that you teach and what the standards are just because you have black kids," Schott Foundation researcher Michael Holzman tells the Plain Dealer.

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