School reform requires community reform

03-29-2010

Column by David Ellison/Oakland Tribune

California has published its worst-schools list. The vast majority of the humiliated sites serve students who are predominately poor and/or minority. This comes as no surprise, of course, because California's and the nation's schools are more segregated by race and class today than ever — and we've long known that concentrating our disadvantaged kids in decrepit schools staffed too often with our least-qualified teachers might make it difficult for those kids and schools to succeed. Now we're going to "reform" those schools by, for example, giving the boot to their principals and teachers (thus discouraging other educators even more from considering a position in them). (more...)

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