Posted on 10/07/2015 7:29:08 AM PDT by nuconvert
Over the past three school years, I unintentionally participated in a tragic educational case study on the west side of Harlem. I worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary School, at which 0% of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English. That isn’t a typo: Not a single one of the 33 students passed either exam, though many of the questions are as straightforward as “What is 15% of 60?”
Two floors above Wadleigh, I taught math at Success Academy Harlem West, a public charter school. The students there eat in the same cafeteria, exercise in the same gym and enjoy recess in the same courtyard. They also live on the same blocks and face many of the same challenges. The poverty rate at Wadleigh is 72%; at Harlem West, it is 60%. At both schools, more than 95% of students are black or Hispanic. About the only difference is that families at Harlem West won an admissions lottery.
Yet for our students, the academic year ended in triumph: 96% were proficient in math—compared with 35% citywide—and 80% scored at the advanced level. In reading and writing, 75% of our students were proficient, compared with 30% citywide.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
If you can’t read the rest of the article at the link and would like to, please FReepmail me and I will send it to you.
If you use google to search for the title “A Tale of Two Schools, One Building” and click on the WSJ link that comes back you can read the whole article.
The other half of the story is that the inner city public schools have always been horrible. In fact, Common Core was developed through experimentation that was done in the late 70s and early 80s in the inner city schools.
Why would they build Common Core from a failed system? Because black single inner city moms never did kick up a fuss because they did not know better. And that fact allowed the edu-planners free reign to figure out what would work if they implemented a nationwide educational plan that did not really teach kids facts.
Thank you Bill Ayers.
Good. Thanks
I read the article. It is mostly fluff.
This is supposedly written by a teacher at one of the schools. He/she should cite specific examples, not generalities, of the problem areas.
From the limited information in the article, it sounds like one is a school, staffed by professional teachers, the other is a day care, staffed by do nothing union employees.
The writer is the vice principal.
“From the limited information in the article, it sounds like one is a school, staffed by professional teachers, the other is a day care, staffed by do nothing union employees.”
And that’s the point.
Clear and concise is the hallmark of good communication.
She shouls spell it out so even the MSM can understand it.
In Atlanta Beverly Hall, superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, encouraged and rewarded falsifying Standard Testing results to show educational improvement when there was none.
Several families sued the school system for damages to their childrens’ education. The entire city should have been up in arms, but most parents thought there was no harm in “a little cheating”.
One particularly militant school administrator refused to apologize after his guilty verdict. Instead of a suspended sentence, the judge had him handcuffed and taken to jail to start his 15 to 20 year prison sentence.
shouls? = should
Just grab the title, Google it, and the link THERE will go to the full article. . .
Why does an entire school have only 33 students?
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