Can 2,000 Inner-City Teachers Be Wrong?

 

I love GoBigEd readers! One of you sent in a powerful piece of evidence backing up my contention that kids in inner-city schools don't need zillions of extra dollars or elaborate programs to do better in school.

 

A survey of 2,000 inner-city teachers with Teach For America, which sends young teachers into high-poverty schools like a Peace Corps for urban schools, came to that conclusion.

 

Instead, what's needed is teacher and principal quality, and higher expectations for achievement by both students and teachers, the inner-city teachers said.

 

Amen! Ditto! Right on!

 

Read more on:

 

http://www.teachforamerica.com/documents/equitywithinreach.pdf

 

2/1/06 • www.GoBigEd.com is a public-service website on K-12 education issues by Susan Darst Williams, a writer who lives at the base of Mount Laundry, Nebraska.