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Three areas where education schools need to improve, according to James A. Alexander of the Inner-City Teaching Corps in Chicago:
1. The connection between the management of classroom behavior and instructional success is not taught well in many education schools. Because some education schools do not bridge the gap between "book smarts" and "street smarts" well, classroom management is something for which inner-city teachers can plan but cannot fully understand until they're in front of students every day.
2. While some education schools are good at connecting assessment to instruction and differentiating for instruction [teaching what is to be tested, and teaching in different ways for different children], others are not. Those schools that do them well put greater priority on these areas.
3. Inner-city teachers must deal with a child's home environment because it is reflected in her or his classroom behavior. Education schools often do not stress the role of parents as positive partners in a child's education.
