Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino: Emotionally Disturbed Inner City Students

Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino: Emotionally Disturbed Inner City Students

Emotionally Disturbed Inner City Students

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The problems facing today's inner city students, particularly those with behavioral and emotional problems, are innumerable and daunting.

Today, there are vastly more single parent families. Fathers, for the most part are totally absent. Child abuse has increased immensely. The proportion of children in the foster care system has increased dramatically. Ordinary familial roles have deteriorated dramatically. Violence, anger, and acting out are the rule rather than the exception in many families. There are very poor boundaries in relationship to others, especially authority and institutions representing authority

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It's like a bad joke. You're interviewing candidates for an important education job and ask each about their views on using performance-based metrics to evaluate and potentially remove teachers. Who actually answers the question, much less inspires confidence that they're up to snuff?

The ex-basketball player who says, "We have to elevate the status of the profession. We can't do enough to recognize great teaching. We can't do enough to shine a spotlight on success. And we have to be willing to challenge the status quo together when it's not working."

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