Rashid Ferrod Davis

Founding Principal of P-TECH, Cahn Fellow 2012, 1st Fordham University-GSE Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, Morehouse College Alum

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The internet just rediscovered an old clip of Zohran Mamdani freestyling and talking about Nigerian music during the Queen of Katwe press tour.

[🎥: via/ KayaFM]

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@PublicSchoolRev Public School Review Rankings
Based on Math and Reading Proficiency School Year 2025-2026

Best New York Vocational Public Schools (2026)
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Best Crown Heights Public Schools (2026)
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New York City Geographic District #17
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Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 🇵🇷 has welcomed her first child, a baby girl named Jayla.

Congratulations!! 🥹🎉

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LISTEN TO THE ATMOSPHERE 😱

Eala and Venus are putting on a show 🔥

#NBO26

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Mia Maxwell 🇺🇸 wins GOLD in the women's 100m at the World U20 Championships in 11.14s!🥇

🥈 Shanoya Douglas 🇯🇲 11.17
🥉 Kelly Ann Doualla 🇮🇹 11.27

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The city got an unexpected classic 🤯🎤

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The moment Alex Eala beat Alycia Parks to get her first ever win in Toronto.

Listen to the noise.

Look at the flags.

This young lady could pack out any stadium.

Welcome to Manila, Canada.

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This is the most hype i’ve seen her in a post match interview 😭❤️‍🔥

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🇺🇸Tate Taylor vs 🇯🇲Gary Card matchup set for the U20 Champs 100m final on Thursday night Aug 6th

#WorldAthleticsU20 📺: Peacock

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P-TECH Brooklyn's inaugural Computer Science cohort significantly outperformed The City University of New York community college graduation benchmarks. While the average two-year graduation rate for full-time first-time associate degree students entering CUNY community colleges in Fall 2015 was 9.1%, P-TECH's first cohort achieved a 68% STEM associate degree completion rate within two years of high school graduation City Tech, CUNY IBM NYC Public Schools Office of Student Pathways New York Alliance for Early College Pathways (NY4ECP) New York State Education Department.

P-TECH Brooklyn demonstrated exceptional postsecondary velocity. More than half of the inaugural cohort completed associate degree requirements ahead of schedule, and 68% earned STEM associate degrees within two years of high school graduation. While traditional community colleges reported two-year graduation rates averaging 9.1%, P-TECH students achieved degree attainment at a rate more than seven times higher, illustrating the effectiveness of an integrated Grades 9-14 pathway that compresses the time between high school enrollment and college credential attainment.

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ALEX EALA is FRONT PAGE of THE WASHINGTON POST! 🙏

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Alex Eala's first match at the Canadian Open will be on center court! 🤯

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This 100m field! 🔥 #SilesiaDL

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#HappyBirthdayPresidentObama @rashidfdavis @PathwaysInTech #ptech #weareptech 65th #happybirthday #sotu @PublicSchoolRev

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The lesson is clear: the most important outcome is not whether students receive a high school diploma, but whether they leave secondary education prepared to persist, complete college credentials, and enter high-opportunity careers. #HappyBirthdayPresidentObama @rashidfdavis @PathwaysInTech #ptech #weareptech
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Traditional High School Accountability

In 2014-15, P-TECH's four-year graduation rate was 72%, roughly comparable to city averages and below its comparison group. Based on graduation rates alone, P-TECH would not have appeared exceptional.

However, other indicators told a different story:

84% College and Career Ready

65% College Ready according to CUNY standards

72% enrolled in college or another postsecondary program within six months

93% six-year high school graduation rate

Postsecondary Outcomes

Among the first P-TECH cohort:

71 students graduated high school in August 2015.

48 students earned the CUNY New York City College of Technology STEM Associate degree by 2017.

11 earned the degree before or at high school graduation.

37 additional students completed the degree during Grades 13 and 14.

Approximately 68% earned a STEM associate degree within two years of high school graduation.

Importantly, the slide highlights:

No academic screening and no college remediation.

These were not students selected through competitive admissions or filtered by prior achievement.

Contrast with National Benchmarks

The National Student Clearinghouse benchmark data for the high school Class of 2015 show that only:

8% of graduates from high-poverty schools completed STEM degrees within six years.

11% of graduates from high-minority schools completed STEM degrees within six years.

14% of graduates from urban schools completed STEM degrees within six years.

Yet P-TECH produced:

68% STEM associate degree completion within two years of high school graduation.

This suggests that P-TECH students were achieving college credential milestones years earlier than national peers from comparable school environments.

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Happy 65th Birthday @BarackObama @POTUS44

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In 2013 President Obama mentioned Pathways in Technology Early College High School in the State of the Union (P-TECH is now replicated in 17 states and 28 countries).

Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges. So those German kids, they're ready for a job when they graduate high school. They've been trained for the jobs that are there. Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.

We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

October 25, 2013

Remarks by the President on Investing in America's Future

Pathways in Technology Early College High School

Brooklyn, New York

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And I want to thank your principal here at P-TECH, Rashid Ferrod Davis, who I am pretty confident is the coolest-looking principal in America. (Laughter and applause.) I mean, there just are not that many principals with dreadlocks and yellow kicks. (Applause.) There aren’t that many of them. I mean, there may be some, but there aren’t that many. (Laughter.)

@PublicSchoolRev Public School Review Rankings

Based on Math and Reading Proficiency School Year 2025-2026

Best New York Vocational Public Schools (2026)

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Best Crown Heights Public Schools (2026)

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New York City Geographic District #17

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As a child, engineering professor Tahira Reid Smith sketched a machine that could turn Double Dutch skipping ropes without human help for a school assignment. Forty years later, she's brought her childhood idea to life with a working prototype called 'Jump Dreams'

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Jessica Pegula after losing to Alex Eala in Washington final

“I can definitely confirm for a Monday final, this is the best Monday final crowd I’ve seen. I’m sure some people took off work. I won’t tell them where you guys were.” 😭😭😭😭

“To all the Filipino fans that came out and have supported, you guys are helping grow tennis around the world. I appreciate that being a female athlete in tennis. We love to see that grow.” ❤️