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Saturday, November 13, 2010

School Tech Connect: Policy Must Serve Narrative--Chicago Tribune

School Tech Connect: Policy Must Serve Narrative--Chicago Tribune

Policy Must Serve Narrative--Chicago Tribune

I'm certainly not the first person in the world to point out the The Tribune is a dishonest paper. Indeed it hardly needs saying. I hate even to link to them but this editorial is just too deliciously corrupt.

Check out the tidy conflation of New Trier and Urban Prep.

I have nothing against the educators or students of either school--- we're all working our hardest here, but what I'd like to point out, again, is that if Urban Prep were a traditional, take-all-comers public school, The Tribune would label it a "dropout factory," as it has done to other unnamed other schools in the editorial.

Urban Prep's official graduation rate in 2010 was 62.6%, and it's disaggregated rate for Black students was