Are you concerned about the concentration of uncredentialed teachers in poor communities as shown in the map above? LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
In 1996, Herschel Sarnoff set about offering a new method of teaching students at Jordan High School in Los Angeles about Social Studies utilizing a software called Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Today, students enrolled in Mr. Sarnoff’s classes find themselves learning GIS mapping software and in that process discovering the correlation between different demographic data, such as socioeconomic status, family income, education levels and race.
Teaching to Change LA asked Mr. Sarnoff and his class to examine the distribution of uncredentialed teachers across greater Los Angeles. Mr. Sarnoff and his class combined 1990 census data with the the percentage of uncredentialed teachers in 2000-2001 obtained from the California Basic Educational Data Systems (CBEDS). To learn more about GIS and Mr. Sarnoff’s use of this program in the classroom, read his article entitled "Census 1790: A GIS Project" or explore the various maps students have created as part of Mr. Sarnoff’s curriculum.
If you have any comments or questions for Mr. Sarnoff, feel free to e-mail him at hms@brandx.net.
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