Brokedown City Schools... and 21 Ways to

Over 60 per cent of entering ninth graders don't graduate from inner-city, neighborhood high schools. In many inner-city, neighborhood high schools over 85 percent of the students are "basic" (not at grade level) and "below basic" (substantially below grade level) in reading and math skills After telling the politically incorrect truth about inner-city schools, Dr. David Weinraub offers 21 major steps for restructuring urban schools. Some of those steps are separating boys and girls,...
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Over 60 per cent of entering ninth graders don't graduate from inner-city, neighborhood high schools. In many inner-city, neighborhood high schools over 85 percent of the students are "basic" (not at grade level) and "below basic" (substantially below grade level) in reading and math skills After telling the politically incorrect truth about inner-city schools, Dr. David Weinraub offers 21 major steps for restructuring urban schools. Some of those steps are separating boys and girls, establishing a national curriculum, eliminating the current grading system in favor of basic skills evaluation, and small group instruction supervised by master teachers for two-year periods.