8 Quotes by Jay Greene

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

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.

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

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

We have to collect more information and let a little more time pass.

They have a reasonably accurate picture of their own circumstance.

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