Henry Gradillas

Henry Gradillas, principal of Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California, describes the effects of a challenging curriculum at his school. Excerpted from a presentation at NCREL's 1992 Academy for Urban School Leaders.

"Challenging curriculum-that's the only thing we've found that's stopped the fights and stopped the gang activities, stopped the pregnancy rate because they were all busy studying. A challenging curriculum gave these kids hope for a university or a college or for a good paying job."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995