Beth Berghoff's Profile

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I approach education reform from a civil rights point of view. I think the civil
rights issue of the 21st century is education reform. I think the problem of ...
inequality in education is an urgent matter," Sharpton said.

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We think about only 2,000 schools in this country, producing 50 percent of our
nation’s dropouts and 75 percent of our minority children dropouts, we have a
real challenge there.

But what we’re seeing instead is an enormous number of pilot schools that are
really replicas of the worst parts of the public system, where decisions are
made farther and farther away from children, and they’re made on the basis of
people who don’t know the kids or that school well. So I pictured a lot of mom
and pop stores. And there are some wonderful pilot—charter schools that I love
around the country. But 90 percent of what the charter schools have become is
not small schools, but just alternate private systems within the public sector.