Fewer than half of the people who take the exam are accepted.

"Respondents also noted changes in the composition of their applicant pools, mainly increases in the number who are female, Asian, or Hispanic. Several schools reported a decrease in the number of white applicants in recent years." Finn p 10

"These are some of the highest-achieving high schools in the United States. In contrast to elite boarding and day schools such as Andover and Sidwell Friends, however, they are public." (Finn, 2012, p. 9)

“Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed accept fewer than half of their applicants.” (Finn & Hockett, 2012, p. 9)

“Our results offer little evidence of an achievement gain for those admitted to an exam school.... In spite of their exposure to much higher-achieving peers and a more challenging curriculum, marginal students admitted to exam schools generally do no better on a variety of standardized tests.”

Leveraging Disadvantage

SEX DIFFERENCE AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE

girls had pastel classrooms decorated with flowers

Boys learn in interactive environments

“The specific concerns is that claims about neurobiology are being used to justify educational arrangements in which boys and girls are trained to conform to sex-role stereotypes rather than to challenge them.” Williams 561

Educators in public schooling argue that caseworkers give up on the children.

○ Public schools and child welfare agencies must begin to work together to support students' educational functioning. (Altshuler, 2003, p. 61)

Kids feel that they are being treated differently than other kids and this can affect their behavior in the classroom.

Both do not work together to help the children most in need. They need to collaborate to support the students who receive little to no support at home.

Few mechanisms exist to support successful collaboration between public child welfare systems and public education systems, despite the fact that most children living in foster care attend public schools.

The students are discussing the difficulties that they have when it comes to changing schools and having to get respect from all the teachers over again.

PUBLIC SCHOOLING

Many local housing authorities constructed large-scale, densely populated housing developments, which soon became a mainstay of the urban landscape

Districts such as New York have union contracts with uniform teacher salary schedules, so teachers with more experience choose to work in schools with fewer “harder to educate” students

Not enough support from families

Too many people living in the homes.

The performance of the students might point to the fact that they are dealing with something at home

“Most, for example, benefit—politically and in other ways, such as fundraising—from exceptionally devoted friends, sometimes in high places, including alums, local politicians, business and university leaders, even journalists” (Finn, 2012, pg. 13).