There are a lot of factors that hinder the academic skills and
test results of our kids in failing districts today. We’ve
heard them for years: inexperienced administrators,
incompetent teachers, poor funding, lack of parental involvement,
student violence and bullying, out dated textbooks, large class
sizes and the list goes on. Dr. Catherine Snow, reading and
literacy researcher, reports that failing and minority school
districts tend to have ineffective administrators and teachers.