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A Year at Mission High

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“Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong” reads the provocative headline of a recent article in Mother Jones Magazine. Thus concludes the author who spent a year observing students and teachers at Mission High in San Francisco. We’ll meet the author and two school staff members to talk about how school performance is — and how it should be — measured.

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Guests:

Kristina Rizga, education reporter for Mother Jones Magazine and author of "Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong"

Eric Guthertz, principal of Mission High School

Pirette McKamey, instructional reform facilitator and English teacher at Mission High School

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