Study looks at 20 years of Chicago school reforms
by thenotebook on Oct 06 2011 Posted in Latest news
The Notebook recently began sharing content with Education Week, where this piece originally appeared.
As we continue to search for reliable measures to evaluate a school district’s progress and debate the true meaning of test score gains, this sobering story broke in Chicago. A complex analysis of test and other data over 20 years showed that, despite perceptions that school reform in Chicago has led to significant student progress, there was little gain in elementary reading and the