What It Feels Like to Teach in a ‘Corrective Action’ School
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What It Feels Like to Teach in a ‘Corrective Action’ School

By Mary Ann Zehr — December 11, 2008 1 min read
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A teacher/blogger from New York City expresses how she feels about teaching in a school that has been labeled as needing “corrective action” under the No Child Left Behind Act. “I’m proud to have 80 percent ELLs in my class,” she writes. “The media always puts down these ‘underperforming’ schools and it’s so sad that my school has been categorized this way.” (Hat tip to GothamSchools)

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She was the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.