BROKEDOWN CITY SCHOOLS...AND 21 WAYS TO FIX THEM

About the Book

Over 60 per cent of entering ninth graders don’t graduate from inner-city, neighborhood high schools. In many inner-city, neighborhood high schools over 85 percent of the students are “basic” (not at grade level) and “below basic” (substantially below grade level) in reading and math skills After telling the politically incorrect truth about inner-city schools, Dr. David Weinraub offers 21 major steps for restructuring urban schools. Some of those steps are separating boys and girls, establishing a national curriculum, eliminating the current grading system in favor of basic skills evaluation, and small group instruction supervised by master teachers for two-year periods.

About the Author

David R. Weinraub earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Temple University and a Doctor of Education degree, specializing in educational administration, from the University of Pennsylvania. Through his career he has been an inner-city teacher, coach, dean, assistant principal and high school principal as well as an assistant professor of graduate education. David received a national award for an outstanding Career Education program while principal and a grant from the State of Pennsylvania to design the Jr. Naval Academy Charter School for students returning from incarceration. He also developed the first English prompted authoring (software) system for the IBM PC.