How to fix NYC schools?
August 31, 2010 7:22 PM   Subscribe

I am an educator in a NYC public school. As my summer ends and my school year is beginning, I have found myself thinking a lot about how to improve education at my school. CNN ran this article yesterday and it got me thinking that we shouldn't just ask "award-winning teachers" how to fix public schools. I should ask the AskMeFi community. So as a public school educator, I am asking you what you think. What are your ideas on how to fix public education?

(By the way...I am looking for real ideas, not just snarky remarks) If that question is too much to handle, try out some of these more focused questions:

1. How do we get students to value their education enough that they come to school regularly and on time?

2. How do we motivate a 15 year old in a 9th grade classroom that reads on a 4th grade level?

3. How do we teach algebra to students who do not add signed numbers correctly?

4. How do we keep good teachers in public education?

5. How do we hold students accountable without relying solely on punitive measures?

6. What's more important in high school...skill development OR character education?

7. If you were Joel Klein (Chancellor of NYC Schools), what would you do?
posted by misterL to Education (1 answer total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: I appreciate the good intentions, but this is basically seven complicated questions and if the problem to be solved is "how do we fix NYC schools" that's a little outside of the scope of AskMe -- jessamyn

 
Require every student to wear a clean white shirt.
posted by sammyo at 7:33 PM on August 31, 2010 [1 favorite]


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