The Rubber Room
"You can never appreciate how irrational the system is until you’ve lived with it." --New York City chancellor of schools, Joel Klein..
If you have a strong stomach, read Steven Brill's account in The New Yorker.
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August 31, 2009
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Could be worse. Could be Detroit. DFT is *still* insisting on no lay-offs and no compensation reductions in the face of 35% structural budget deficits, enrollments that decline by around 10,000/yr, and a graduation rate that hovers around 25% (of which possibly half are functionally literate and able to do basic math [i.e. below algebra]).
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | August 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM