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NPR Education Series September 4th- New Orleans Charter Schools
After Katrina, charter schools run by private, nonprofit organization are the new schools in the city of New Orleans.
Students are able to choose their schools no matter where they live.
Charter schools are the "future of education."
A reporter says that a massive 1.8 billion dollars of constructions of new charter schools- which are currently operated in trailors.
Children must wear the uniform or school colors, and not excessive "bling" is allowed.
They cannot walk in certain areas of the schools.
They are accepted in charter schools by test scores and grades.
Students after Katrina were frowned upon at when they traveled to new cities to live in after their homes and schools were destroyed.
The reporter state that New Orleans is the new "guinea pig" for the charter schools.
The city is called the gumbo city, meaning that they are "thrown" together and mixed up.
65% percent of students were attending 'failing' schools before Katrina, but now the number is to 13% percent.
Charter schools are bad at keeping up with student's attendance and for special education programs.
Higher levels of segregation and inequality is rising.
Charter schools have selective choices in who gets to attend. It keeps the schools rated high and keeps their schools running well.
Learning disabilities are not always accepted and parents get to choose where they go to help benefit schools.
NPR Podcast Librairians can not be afforded by Chicago schools.
The number of librarians is shrinking every year in Chicago schools.
The number of qualified librarians is still high, but the schools can not afford to pay their salaries.
They are staffing new classrooms rather than librarians. English and World Languages are considered more important.
There shouldn't be classrooms without teachers and librarians.
The librarians are being used by becoming teachers.
The state of Illinois says that librarians must have a teaching background qualification and endorsements.
Schools are not "enforced" to have a librarian.
Students can still use the library because of clerks and parent volunteers.
They hope that Physical Edu teachers and art teachers are hoping to not be next in the cuts from the budgets.
Now, as for the comparison of the podcast v.s. articles, I enjoy reading better. I like having the information presented in front of me when I am doing school work. I think I can personally comprehend better from reading. If the articles were read aloud as a podcast, that would be even more useful. As opposed to just listening to podcasts, I do not think just a podcast benefits me as a student. I remember in my senior year of high school, my teacher gave us "notes." It was about 1-3 pages of essay format and he would record himself reading aloud the essay with extra tidbits of information or explaining something better. That was a great way to get me involved and informed on the topics we were learning. I took in a lot of what he said and it made me more comfortable with the class.
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