Update: Wrong About Urban Prep? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Update: Wrong About Urban Prep? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Update: Wrong About Urban Prep?

by Alexander Russo

Education historian Diane Ravitch noted some holes in the claims and accomplishments of Urban Prep and several other reform success stories in a recent NYT oped, but Urban Prep head Tim King says Ravitch got it wrong over all (about poverty and achievement) and about Urban Prep in particular: "To be sure, the test scores of our students still have plenty of room for improvement. But Ravitch implies that low test scores mean that our perfect college