No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School

Educate by APM Reports

Aug 9, 202200:52:01Education

Producer DJ Cashmere spent seven years teaching Black and brown students at a Noble Street charter high school in Chicago. At the time, Noble followed a popular model called "no excuses." Its schools required strict disc...

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