Below the Bar: Why We (Can’t) Forget Students Left Behind

By Sarah Fine

This fall, during the first round of parent-teacher conferences at the Washington, D.C. charter school where I teach, I sat down with the mother of a sweet-tempered 10th grader who reads at the level of a 3rd grader. As always when I've had to discuss a student’s shortcomings with a...

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