Cultures of Commitment

Autor/in	Keller, Bess
Titel	Cultures of Commitment
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 33, S.24-27 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Urban Teaching; Small Schools; Urban Schools; Teaching Conditions; Teacher Persistence; Public Schools; Teacher Student Relationship; Educational Improvement; Charter Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Urban education; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; School; Schools; Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Charter school; Charter-Schule
Abstract	A major strand in the current national push to improve secondary education is the movement to scale down schools into smaller, more personalized units, especially for students facing the greatest obstacles to success. Hundreds of small schools and learning communities have cropped up in recent years, famously helped along by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $1.5 billion campaign to raise the numbers of students who graduate from high schools ready for college and work. Whatever promise the small-schools approach holds, though, there widespread agreement it will not be realized without a sufficient supply of teachers who are up to a triple threat of challenges: urban teaching in the context of a start-up operation, often with a heavy dose of surrogate parenting thrown in. This article describes the commitment given by teachers in the small public high schools cropping up in many U.S. cities. Ironically, it is the human dimension of small schools--precisely the attribute that experts see as their greatest strength--that can be the most draining and rewarding. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10