Here in Chicago, I've found that just
because urban educators may know about the trauma their students experience, it doesn't mean that they know how it impacts them or how best to help them.
Not exact matches
Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers —
urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.
Because the city is smaller than many
urban districts, school leaders could be very selective in choosing from the pool of
educators who wanted to come and work there.
Our growth over the past decade has been propelled by
educators and parents who are themselves opening their own charters in both
urban and rural areas
because they believe charters will provide their children with better educational outcomes.
In many districts, especially large
urban districts, the psychologists carry such huge case loads that the special
educator may be expected to write the report — a report that is often returned multiple times
because the special
educator has failed to read the mind of the psychologist.
Instead of addressing the uncomfortable truth that some
educators are not the best fit at
urban schools, or helping
educators improve their practice to help them become more successful working with students who are different from them, schools go for the quick fix which, to them, means as a black
educator you can expect to have difficult students in your class
because you can handle them.