Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional schools run»

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

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Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.