![]() In urban schools that enroll high proportions of poor students, performance is appallingly low. POLICY BRIEF #35īy any measure, student performance in the nation’s urban schools is low. The rescue of urban schools entails dismantling entrenched and patronage-driven school board bureaucracies, holding schools accountable for their performance, and encouraging well-planned experimentation with charter and contract schools, and vouchers. To write off these districts’ dismal achievement levels as inevitable is to consign a generation of city youth to lives without prospects or hope. Many educators have come to realize that poverty and language barriers in urban schools are unacceptable excuses for appallingly low student performance.
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