Innovation

Scott Bess and Keeanna Warren on Purdue Polytechnic High School

Getting Smart Podcast

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Scott Bess, Executive Director of Purdue Polytechnic High Schools in Indiana, and Keeanna Warren, Associate Executive Director of Purdue Poly and Founding Principal of Purdue Poly North. Listen to the episode.

PPHS Closing the Achievement Gap

There are schools already doing this work and overperforming when it comes to the academic outcomes of Black students.

Schools like Purdue Polytechnic High School's Englewood campus, where more than 20% of Black students passed both the English and math portions of the 10th-grade ISTEP exam last year; higher than the average pass rate for Black students statewide on the exam last year which was 13.6%. Read more here.