At Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, students aren’t kids or boys.
In the classrooms and cafeteria, they’re kings.
That’s just one of the many things that stand out in this new boys-only, public school in Washington, D.C. The school opened in August 2016 to a class of roughly 100 young men. All are freshmen. All are students of color. All are determined to change the narrative.
In Washington, and the rest of the country, that narrative says too many young black men are below-average readers. They’re suspended from school at above-average rates and less likely to graduate than any other group.
Ron Brown College Prep is a radical effort to change that.
For the past year, NPR and Education Week have been reporting on the birth of this new school. Here are some of the adults who made it a reality:
Ben Williams, principal
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