Summary Of JHS 145 And New Millennium

What is the distance between progress and failure? At 1000 Teller Avenue in the South Bronx, it is two flights of stairs and a few points on the annual state exams-- the gap between the New Millennium Business Academy Middle School, on the second floor, and Junior High School 145 Arturo Toscanini, on the fourth. This article relates to Eisner’s Questionable Assumptions paper because JHS 145 and New Millennium are graded by how well their students are performing. The two school were at one point in time one school but it was thought that apart they would have better results. JHS 145 and New Millennium also have competitive natures towards each other because they share a building and New Millennium is slowly taking over the shared space. Even though the separation was meant to make the schools stronger and give them higher test rates it has actually barely improved. Both school have improved but JHS 145 is not improving at the rate they need to and so the school is not getting the enrollment sizes that the school strives for. In the case of Eisner’s assumption that the best way to identify schools that work well is to examine their students’ test scores, JHS 145 measures their students success on test
The problem with this is that Rafe Esquith has no communication or relations with the other teachers in the school. This relates to the article because the teachers at JHS 145 do not trust one another which is needed in order for schools to succeed. In conclusion, two schools, JHS 145 and New Millennium, were formed in the hope that the students attending the schools would have improved learning. But, due to distrust, killed morale, and grading schools on how students are performing, JHS 145 will be