Improving a School
Hope springs eternal, or so the old maxim goes -- but is there hope for a middle school in New Jersey that lags behind expected standards and shows only vague signs of being able to lift itself up out of the morass of failure?
Indeed, what is to be done for the students and the community their families live in when their public school is a violent place where chaos rules? What is the solution for a public middle school when student achievement is below acceptable levels and when the school is actually unsafe? And further, what is the solution for a school -- Grace Dunn Middle School in Trenton, New Jersey -- that is poorly maintained and there is a near-constant turnover of teachers?
These are some of the issues that face Grace Dunn Middle School. There are several more important issues that must be addressed before Dunn Middle School can be brought up to standards that are expected of public schools in New Jersey. Among those issues is the fact that there is a great deal of pressure on the Dunn Middle School administration to simply pass underachieving students for the sake of moving them on and out of the school. This is unconscionable on the part of the administration, and moreover it is abhorrent to the basic concept of helping young people learn and grow in a positive environment.
The New Jersey School Performance report indicates that Dunn Middle School "…significantly lags in comparison to schools across the state" vis-a-vis scholarship and academic performance (www.state.nj.us). Dunn Middle School does not meet state standards when it comes to getting students ready for a career, or for higher education. Isn't getting young people ready for the rest of their lives -- isn't the real purpose of a public school -- to prepare children for their future, no matter whether it is to be working in a factory, selling used cars, or as a computer technician for IBM?
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It is all well and good to have assessments and to collect data and analyze the data juxtaposed with data from other middle schools. And it is...
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