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Harold O. Levy, the New York City schools chancellor from 2000 to 2002, has been a trustee of several colleges.
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I read the article this morning and offer the following:
1. The reader has to know the author's background as having led one of the great failed school systems in the country to understand where his line of reasoning is coming from in his opinions.
2. I don't agree with the belief that the lengthening of high school will ensure a lower drop-out rate - apples and oranges in that line of reasoning - or that a high school education is insufficient for the general workforce as so many high schools do offer all levels of education - from better preparing someone to work in a warehouse to graduating students with upwards of two years of college coursework completed.
3. As far as the high pressure techniques he touts as a means for truant officers to curb truancy, those are nothing new and - for many reasons - offer little more than what many school systems use now. My experiences with that issue have been a bit different and my views on this can be read in my blog at -
http://sfoda726.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
4. Using the DOE - a failure from the get go - to further involve themselves in the educational processes at even higher levels is - IMO - the pervasive lunacy of a typical educational bureaucrat whose commitment is to systemic stasis vs real change and improvement.
Mr Levy isn't entirely wrong in some of his opinions - but he certainly isn't entirely correct in many of them, either. YMMV.
Richard's $.02
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