They have a reasonably accurate picture of their own circumstance.

It's pretty bad. Large districts in general are doing less well and Los Angeles is toward the bottom of that list.

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Several of San Antonio area districts fare better than many other urban districts.

It's a fairly large difference, particularly when you consider that unlike differences across racial and ethnic groups, boys and girls are raised in the same households, so it's not so easy to explain the differences by their community, or their income level.

It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.