A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools

In consistently "failing" schools, the competitive spirit is always present, but with an estranged character.

The children of Brooklyn’s Sumner and Marcy projects, along with hundreds of central American and Caribbean immigrants, spend their first ten school-aged years at a local magnet school just off the South Williamsburg border. Magnet schools were designed as an early “school choice” initiative to counteract segregation, promising a holistic, non-competiti…