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New York City is the largest public school system in the U.S., by far. There are approximately 92,000 teachers, more than 1,300 schools and nearly 1.1 million students. To put it in perspective, only nine cities in the U.S. have that many people.
In 2002, MIchael Bloomberg was elected Mayor of New York and he appointed former assistant US attorney general and businessman Joel Klein as the schools chancellor.
How is Klein doing in what Former President Bush once called ‘the toughest job in America’? We take a look back and a look forward in this profile of Joel Klein.
(Originally aired September 28, 2005)
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April 1, 2009 at 2:05 pm
James Gambrell 100807 says:
Real education reform requires breaking down the current system and replacing it with things like computer-based-instruction, individual tutoring, micro-schools, school choice, and even more radical sorts of reforms. The great myth behind many of these reforms is the idea of the “great teacher” or the “great school”. The effect size of “great teachers” and “great schools” is nowhere near strong enough to bring up our abysmal nationwide proficiency rates. The problem is that one person teaching 30 students is simply a dismal way to educate people. Until we find a way to bring every child thousands of hours of 1 on 1 instruction, achievement will stay roughly where it is today (and has been for decades).