
"How many of you will come back to change this neighborhood?" Steve Barr asked more than 300 students graduating from Locke High School, in the Los Angeles district of Watts.
This article accompanies the feature "Steve Barr's Answers for School Reform."
Green Dot consists of 19 small charter high schools in Los Angeles -- including the infamous Locke High School which the organization led through a significant turnaround -- as well as Green Dot New York that finished its first year last June. Replicating success seems to be part of Green Dot's DNA.
Here are seven tenets of Green Dot's philosophy about schools that work:
Links:
[1] http://www.edutopia.org/malaika-costello-dougherty-content
[2] http://www.edutopia.org/charter-schools-green-dot-barr
[3] http://www.greendot.org/newyork
[4] http://www.edutopia.org/poll-charter-schools-failing
[5] http://www.edutopia.org/making-connections-between-home-school
[6] http://www.edutopia.org/los-angeles-dropout-technology
[7] http://www.edutopia.org/barr-slide-show
[8] http://www.edutopia.org/arne-duncan-chicago-public-schools-video
[9] http://www.edutopia.org/starting-over-new-school-development-group-video