For parents, educators, and lawmakers, the promise of preschool is that children will enter school ready to learn, but, in reality, the results are mixed.
Unable to find enough qualified teachers for its worst public schools, New York City set up a crash program--one month of training--for 350 men and women.
Standards are necessary, of course, and so is accountability, but are schools being backed into a corner? If they continue to live by test results, will they die that way?
Why do 30% percent of new teachers– 50% in urban areas– leave teaching within five years? Is the problem one of recruitment or retention?
Social promotion is the practice of promoting students to the next grade despite their low achievement. And it's just the beginning of a seriously flawed system.
American education seems to lack both national standards and common sense. This program follows up on two schools previously featured in "Early Learning."
Charter schools server over 105,000 students across the country. They're exempt from most state regulations and oversight. But are charter schools gambling with our children?
Most American parents believe that their children's schools are at least okay, but American students are outperformed by students in nearly every other industrialized nation.
This documentary (based on three years of videotaping in one high school) details the often painfully slow progress of school reform.
The gap that exists between the vision of a bright-eyed graduate of a school of education and the reality of a first year teacher with his or her own classes is one that must be faced and crossed by all beginning teachers.
