The Cristo Rey model of reform is needed because:
1.The 38th annual Phi Delta Kappa/ Gallup poll of the public's attitude toward public schools indicates 70% of Americans blame societal factors for the achievement gap and high dropout rates while only 22 percent fault the schools.
2.The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) focuses more on problems with schooling and curriculum than it does problems with individual students.
3.NCLB needs to realize that students are complex people who have deeper problems than the school they attend, the level of the curriculum there, and the unqualified teachers.
4.One of the real reasons why students' are not motivated to learn is that their teachers do not know how to teach and those that can teach do not know how to make it interesting for students and motivate them.
5. Public schools have failed in bringing poor and needy students to a level of achievement with their peers and as we have seen and read in the book "Our Schools Suck" written by Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, and Jeanne Theoharis and in the movies "Hard Times at Douglas High" and "Precious" the No Child Left Behind Act and public education is not working.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Why is the Cristo Rey model of community schooling needed to reform education?
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