LISTEN: Large Schools Claim It’s “Not Their Fault”

December 23rd, 2010

LISTEN: Large Schools Claim It's "Not Their Fault"

Produced by: Amanda Thieroff. Field Reporting by: John D. Tulenko. / Duration: 4:16 min

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This podcast is a companion piece to our reporting for PBS NewsHour on small school initiatives in New York City; the PBS report is embedded above.

Reporter John Tulenko talks with a teacher from a large, under-performing school slated to be closed in the upcoming year and a former principal from another such school. These educators do not deny that their schools are under-performing, but they say that many of the problems that keep them down are not of their own making.