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From: Paul Rogers <englishtoday2002@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1008] solutions 2
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Dear Peg,
I disagree with you on a few points. In general,
you maintain that the problem cannot be solved.
I have worked with low-income parents who have a
great deal of confidence to get involved in improving
their children's education, and I don't believe that
the background of teachers is as you say it is.
I have also seen an extremely well run Dual
Immersion program at a school with 65% ADC (Welfare)
students, most of whom were Latino. Parental
involvement was very high.
So, I would appreciate to see exactly what your
concrete solutions to this problem would be.
Sincerely,
Paul Rogers
--- Margarita Oliver <pegtoliver@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Paul Rogers
> I believe we need to look at the reason for the
> overuse of unqualified
> teachers in poor communities. Most of the teachers
> come from those
> communities, which continue to have the lowest
> overall levels of education.
> What else can we expect? Undereducated parents
> don't have the confidence
> to demand good teaching or to run the schools.
> The combination of the
> sickening failure of federal and state governments
> to address adult basic
> education, combined with politically-inspired
> high-stakes testing -- and NO
> "accountability" for the fallout -- practically
> guarantees that the
> situation will continue.
> Peg Oliver
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Rogers <englishtoday2002@yahoo.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov>
> Date: Saturday, January 04, 2003 11:42 AM
> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1001] Solution? -
> Least-qualified teachers often
> teach poor, minority kids
>
>
> > What is the solution to the problem raised in
> the
> >article concerning over-use of substitute teachers?
> > In my opinion, charter schools based on
> successful
> >models (such as Dual Immersion programs) need to be
> >set up and run by the parents. Is there any other
> way
> >to begin to get at the problems facing the schools
> in
> >"minority" communities?
> >Paul Rogers
> >
> >
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