Here’s a story out of Toronto about the approval of a high school with an Afrocentric curriculum.

The school is aimed at addressing the massive dropout rate of Caribbean and African students. One reason, advocates argue, is that the current curriculum isn’t relevant to their background, and the teachers don’t provide sufficient models of, you guessed it, “diversity.” One activist claims such schools are a “right.”

Rather than object to such programs on principle, however, I think we’ve reached the point of letting them proceed, then holding them to their promises. Down the road, we ask the outcomes questions. Have dropout rates gone down? Is academic achievement for these students rising?