Lessons on school reform in Chicago: Like baking a cake
by Ron Whitehorne on Oct 18 2010
Penny Bender Sebring and her colleagues at the Consortium on Chicago School Researchhave been studying school reform in the Windy City since the 1980s. Last month at a symposium sponsored by the Public Interest Law Centershe drew out some of the lessons of decades of exhaustive research, aided by panelists Deborah Meier and Torch Lytle.
The lessons from Chicago raise serious questions about the reforms currently underway in Philadelphia and other cities, buoyed by federal and corporate dollars.
Teacher performance is at the center of the current discussion of school
