Friday, September 6, 2013

New York City's Public Education Challenges - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

New York City's Public Education Challenges - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com:

New York City’s Public Education Challenges

DEBATERS

INTRODUCTION

André da Loba
The next mayor of New York City faces some tough challenges particularly when it comes to setting public education priorities. Should he or she abandon Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s fixation on testing and data-driven accountability, or expand school choice and close failing classrooms to give more options to families, especially English-language learners and those in low-income communities?
This is the fifth in a series of discussions on what awaits the next chief executive of New York.
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