student achievement
We have become convinced that in our nation's struggling urban
schools, teachers and would-be education reformers are battling through a
hurricane that shows no signs of abating. We call this hurricane
"churn."
Churn is a remarkable instability among school personnel that
makes it nearly impossible to build a professional community or develop
long-term relationships with students. It happens when teachers are
treated like interchangeable parts who can be moved around cavalierly to
plug a hole in a school schedule. It happens when administrators
repeatedly order teachers to switch to a different grade, teach a
different subject, or move to a different school.
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We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years
of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth.
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