G DUBBZ is for the CHILDREN

Nas - I CAN (Bob James remix)
Blind Melon - Three is a Magic Number (Schoolhouse Rocks!)
Biz Markie - Energy Blues (Schoolhouse Rocks!)
Skee-Lo - The Tale of Mr. Morton (Schoolhouse Rocks!)

G DUBBZ recently visited a Harlem charter school to push for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind act. Like our man Jay, DUBBZ knows that numbers don't lie:

" It's amazing what happens, though, when you measure. The percentage of New York City 4th graders meeting state standards in reading has increased by more than 12 percent over five years. The percentage of 4th graders doing math at grade level has increased by 19 points."

Biochemical Slang decided to dig up some of its own numbers:

• The New York City graduation rate is at an all time high, 50% (that's 1 out of every 2 kids, for the math-phobic folks). AND, people are overjoyed: "I think New York City is a very positive story," Commissioner of Education Richard Mills said. "There's just a very determined effort." Chancellor Joel Klein, ever the mathematician, added, "But 50% is a lot better than 44%."
• The rate of NYC students who drop out before completing four years of high school is 20%, up from last year's 15%.
• There are approximately 70,000 NYC high school students who are either over-age or under-credited. There are only 13,000 seats in programs designed to help these kids graduate. YOU do the math.
  
• Theodore Roosevelt HS, in the Bronx, boasts a 3% graduation rate. Yeah. Three percent.
• 57% of the freshmen class of 2001 graduated in five years. Bloomberg's response: "If kids graduate in four years, three months, if they graduate in five years, if they graduate in six years, more power to them."

Biochemical Slang to G DUBBZ: We don't believe you. You need more NUMBERS.