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Inadequate Resources and Inappropriate Distribution Are Evident in our Public Schools, Not Extreme Violence
A heightened level of violence in our schools is not supported by the facts. ![]()
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Education are "pursuing solutions that fail to address the real problems of long-established administrative policies that inadequately distribute resources to schools". writes John Beam in the New York Times [Jan 20, 2004]
He continues: " Unfortunately, we were also able to document a significant negative relationship between the race and income of students and the distribution of many essential resources like libraries and computers and enriched course work as well as factors like teacher qualifications...If politicians devoted more effort to making schools places where students want to be than to kicking them out, we would have both more peaceful and successful schools." |