Thursday, July 3, 2008

N.Y. small schools—Can they survive?

This good-news small schools story ran yesterday in the NYT. It raises an interesting question —can success at small schools like the Law & Justice Academy, be sustained?

To hear the tales of the new graduates is to understand the enormous effort and amount of resources it takes to make a school succeed. Teachers and other staff members routinely work 60 hours a week. Millions of extra dollars have been collected in grants and private donations. Parents and students regularly attend workshops until 10 p.m.

Someone's burning out

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BTW, who is this Martin Klonsky (must be a relative) and why is the Hillary Clinton Forum saying such terrible things about him?

2 comments:

  1. There are some small schools that need to be shut, fast. There are others that are performing somewhere on the poor-fair-mediocre spectrum. And only a few are genuinely performing well. It's a shame to read that the strong performance in this story is non-sustainable.

    But there are exceptions. There are good stories. It's not Small Schools that are failing, but the raft of awful, poorly thought out ones that were mass-produced in the poorest areas of NYC over the last few years.

    Jonathan

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  2. It's silly perhaps to talk about small vs big schools--behind these words so many other factors intervene to make them positive or negtive concepts.

    Deborah

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