Time  has  changed .

  Education  has  changed.

JANUARY 17, 2015

"The ultimate terror for white people is to leave the highway by mistake and find themselves in East St. Louis. People speak of getting lost in East St. Louis as a nightmare. The nightmare to me is that they never leave the highway so they never know what life is like for all the children here. They ought to get off that highway. The nightmare isn't in their heads. It's a real place. There are children living here."

Safir Ahmed in

Savage Inequalities

A  new  age  of  education:

SIUE  EAST  St.  Louis  

charter  high  &  GRIT

“Despite its struggling PSAE scores, the SIU Charter School in East St. Louis has the area’s highest graduation rate, with 100 percent of its students graduating within five years. The second highest rate is Edwardsville High School at 97 percent.”                                                                                                                              

                                    Belleville News-Democrat, 2014

"Every one of us in Teach for America was working so hard and creating results in our classrooms, but if our kids didn’t go on to graduate from college, who the hell cared?"

Paul Tough,

How children succeed  

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