The Hechinger Report – Eric Nadelstern
“I began visiting public schools in Detroit one year ago. For the first several months, I saw things in those schools that I have never encountered before during too many urban school visits to remember. The students were too beaten down to act out. They were mindlessly engaged in teacher directed activities that left little for the imagination. The level teachers were teaching to ignored reasonable grade level expectations. Support staff thought their jobs were to protect students from their younger, whiter and more demanding teachers, many of whom came to the school through non-traditional routes such as Teach for America. Principals and assistant principals were doing their jobs as if there was no crisis in the school.”(more)