Not exact matches
On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence
of harm, other
than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the
rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter
schools have moved the
country farther away from the collective and democratic forms
of education.»
Perry says, «Ultimately putting a
school district back together again will be more instructive for the
rest of the
country than learning how New Orleans broke one up.»
Currently, a little less
than half
of the state's superintendents are elected, while the
rest are appointed by the local
school board - as is common through most
of the
country.
Teachers I know spend more time talking about the intellectual challenges
of the craft
than most teachers I meet in the
rest of the
country, where many
school systems are still too broken for such conversations.