Bonus Footage from “No Textbook Answer”: Dr. Edmund Gordon on the Causes of the Achievement Gap

Dr. Edmund Gordon is one of the nation’s foremost scholars on education and the Achievement Gap. He was one of the founders and the first research director for Head Start, and is currently the Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Gordon has been a strong proponent of “supplementary education,” the kind of education that a child receives outside of school, as the necessary link in bridging the Achievement Gap.