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We Need Inner City Children to be Inner City Teachers

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It has been a long time issue that inner city schools often have the hardest time keeping and hiring qualified teachers. Cities, such as Milwaukee, face trouble with teachers leaving and moving to more suburbanized areas. As it stands, Milwaukee has a policy that requires teachers to live in the area. Some have thought that more teachers might stay at Milwaukee’s Public Schools if they were allowed to live elsewhere. Many of the teachers do not want to live in the area because they would have to send their own children to the public schools. There is no easy answer … Continue reading →

The Education Blog in Review: October 29-November 6

I know, I know. . .this is a little post dated. Since our regular education blogger Kaye Siders has left, several of us from the Families.com community have been guest blogging sporadically here in Education. Consequently, the regularly posted “week in review” blogs that many of us are accustomed to seeing in various sections of the Families.com blogs were missing. But never fear! We’re working on getting you caught up in case you’ve missed some of the exciting blogs in education over the last several weeks. Did you read My Inner City Story? I started a series sharing some thoughts … Continue reading →

Why I Support School Choice Part 3

If you haven’t been following the series, you can check out the links below. This is the final installment in which I answer critics’ concerns over tax funded school choice proposals. School choice options include options like vouchers and charter schools. If you’re just joining us, my position in a nutshell is that I am not anti-public education, but I feel that school choice options would improve the over all educational system. Let’s take a look at a few more issues regarding school choice. Public schools have a minimal standard of accountability while private schools are without regulation. Sending tax … Continue reading →

My Inner City Story: Practices That Work

We have talked about how teaching in the inner city has to be a passion, how teachers are better served by mentors rather than more in-service and staff development, and we’ve talked about the conditions that plague the inner city. Urban education is a unique set of circumstances and forces set in motion and without support teachers frankly can’t do the job that needs to be done. I am personally convinced after my experiences here that the inner city requires innovative solutions. I would even be so bold as to say that we need to throw out much of what … Continue reading →

The Week in Review for Education

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It has been a fairly busy week for the topic of education. What were the topics that were covered this week in education? On Monday, Kaye posted a blog about what it was like to teach in a last chance school. You can read the article here. Teaching in a last chance school is unlike teaching anywhere else. Kaye certainly seemed to enjoy it though! Kaye also posted a blog on Monday about how much teachers spend out of their own pockets for teaching supplies. These supplies are not reimbursed and can often set the teacher back quite a bit … Continue reading →

My Inner-City Story: 3 Types of Teachers

I have been living, tutoring, teaching and working with families in the inner city now for ten years. I have seen many teachers come and go. I have seen teachers come in to “rescue” the poor inner city children and I see teachers who feel like they can really make a difference. And they soon discover that they can’t–at least no with that attitude. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start with a disclaimer. I know that in one sense my inner city experience is unique. It’s unique even than other parts of New York. But there is … Continue reading →

What it Takes to Be A Teacher

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So many people have asked me what it takes to be a teacher. They wonder if I got into teaching solely to have my summers off. This always made me laugh, because for several summers I taught summer school. The other summers I took graduate courses, paying with my own money. So, having my summer off wasn’t why I went into teaching. It was nice to have extra days off, but it surely wasn’t the reason. I have to say if people go into teaching only because they want summers off, then they certainly don’t have what it takes to … Continue reading →