Want to hear and see examples of success in urban classrooms? (excellenceined.org)
Not enough college students want to teach in big cities, and few education schools focus on preparing teachers for urban classrooms. (edweek.org)
Claims about the potential of system - level and governance changes seem to both overestimate the impact system - level changes can have on student achievement at scale and studiously avoid what happens every day in the classroom... the conversation on the district, rather than the classroom, glosses over the question of what students should be learning, whether we're teaching it, and whether, in particular, we're teaching it well in the challenging context of urban classrooms. (educationnext.org)