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?
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.
ReplyDeleteBut 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
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.
ReplyDeleteDeborah