When you think of the “typical” American high school student, the words highly motivated, engaged, and working for a better future might not be what immediately comes to mind. As we note in our book, a lot of recent research on education shows that taking short-cuts to succeed seems to be rather endemic among American youth. But today, President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are in Boston to visit the Tech Boston Academy – a school where 95% of the students go on to college even though the majority of students come from one of the poorer areas of urban Boston and are first generation college applicants (you can see CNN’s coverage here). Read More...

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