York Suburban School District

High rates of teacher turnover has placed huge strains on school districts, moreover, on student performance. It has served to be disruptive to program continuity, staff and student cohesion, and growth and performance, particularly in urban schools. Researchers have long sought to understand why recruiting and retaining quality teachers in urban schools remain a significant challenge (Freedman & Appleman, 2009). According to Ingersoll (2004), with a quarter of the teaching force leaving their classrooms

there so few college-bound kids graduating from our urban schools, and why are the ones who do go to college so ill-prepared when they arrive? We live in a nation where education is a prominent force of succeeding in life. Children learn critical and analytical skills for twelve years in school to prepare to graduate high school, and go on to receive a two- or four-year college education. Being educated is an integral part of society. School helps children learn social norms and teach them how to be

needs them. Why are so few kids graduating from our urban schools college-bound? Why are the few who go to college so ill-prepared when they arrive? We live in a nation where education is a prominent force of succeeding in life. Children learn critical and analytical skills for twelve years in preparation to graduate high school and prospectively go on to receive a college degree. Being educated is an integral part of success in our society. School helps children learn social norms and how to be successful

Harper’s Magazine and was also adapted from his book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. This essay essentially discusses the injustice of the school systems and how predominately white districts thrive while African American districts are left without basic needs. Kozol uses of New York City as an example of the unfair financial inconsistencies towards specific counties or cities in the state. The author argues, “the gross discrepancies in teacher salaries between

segregation within schools illegal, one would be inclined to believe that modern schools are void of any inequality. However, at a deeper glance, it is apparent that there is a glaring inequality within public school systems at the national, statewide, and even district-wide level. Such an inequality has drastic results as the education one receives has a high correlation to the college they will attend, and the job they will work. It is in society's best interest that public school systems be improved

Education is an integral part of society, the school helps children learn social norms as well as teach them how to be successful adults. The community that some youth live in really determine their future education and how far they succeed. Are they truly getting the best education for them to be successful college students and have a career or is it a determinant of failure and going into the system? I have noticed that many of my students who are predominately minorities are not getting the proper

Throughout history, there have been dozens of kinds of civilizations. In said civilizations, there are subsets of districts in which only certain sets of people reside. Between World War I and now, many changes in these areas have occurred that we can observe. Whether it be a strong economy, rapid postwar growth, change in class, or simply new architectural designs for cities, there are several factors that contributed to the rise of what we now know as suburbia. Initially, the leading factor in

York City School District The current sanctions placed on the York City School District by the Pennsylvania Department of Education have intrigued me since the day I started working at Jackson Elementary there three years ago. YCSD ranked 490th out of 496th school districts in the state of Pennsylvania in 2015. Last school year they did not improve as expected, according to the latest reports just released by the State Department of Education. The district has some goals to meet, which include cutting

the opportunity of equal education to all children. All children are provided schools to attend. However, the quality of one school compared to another is undoubtedly unfair. Former teacher John Kozol, when being transferred to a new school, said, "The shock from going from one of the poorest schools to one of the wealthiest cannot be overstated (Kozol 2)." The education gap between higher and lower-income schools is obvious: therefore, the United States is making the effort to provide an equal

is mandated from kindergarten to 12th grade, and education is offered from pre-school to graduate school. Yet the system is in crisis in many ways, among which, recruitment and retention of qualified teachers to lead the necessary changes that will allow students to actualize and become intelligent global citizens. Teachers today face a number of challenges that contribute to a lack of job satisfaction, leaving schools for other professions that are more lucrative, low comparative compensation, and