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John Legend: So what is the high school dropout rate at Harlem Children's Zone?

Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John, 100 percent of our kids graduated high school last year in my school.

This year's seniors will have 100 percent graduating high school.

JL: So how do you stick with them after they leave high school?

GC: Well, you know, one of the bad problems we have in this country is these kids, the same kids, these same vulnerable kids, when you get them in school, they drop out in record numbers.

What are you talking about that you want to leave school?

No. You'd better stay in school.

But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily?

So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist.

We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students?

I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.

Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.

It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out.

She worked at the local high school as a secretary in the dean's office, so she got to see all the kids that got thrown out of class, for whatever reason, who were waiting to be disciplined.

So, see, kids like us, we have a lot of things to deal with outside of school, and sometimes we're just not ready to focus.

I took a school bus to the fancy side of town.

And eventually, I ended up at a school where there was a mixture.

There were some people who were really gang-affiliated, and then there were those of us really trying to make it to high school.

But then, they were very surprised when I graduated from high school.

I was accepted to Pepperdine University, and I came back to the same school that I attended to be a special ed assistant.

So I began my teaching career at the exact same middle school that I attended, and I really wanted to try to save more kids who were just like me.

I was like, "You need to go to a hospital, the school nurse, something."

So we created a new school.

And we made sure that we were still attached to our school district for funding, for support.

And as the very first pilot middle school in all of Los Angeles Unified School District, you better believe there was some opposition.

Well, we're making school worth coming to every day.

Our state test scores have gone up more than 80 points since we've become our own school.

And it takes a school board member who is going to lobby for you and say, "Know, the district is trying to impose this, but you have the freedom to do otherwise."

They deserve a quality school in their neighborhood, a school that they can be proud to say they attend, and a school that the community can be proud of as well, and they need teachers to fight for them every day and empower them to move beyond their circumstances.

My high school is Chicago, diverse and segregated on purpose.

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