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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Who will reform the reformers?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Who will reform the reformers?:

Who will reform the reformers?

Rahm's urban removal project
Here's more on Chicago's top-down, corporate-style school reform -- the "miracle" that propelled Arne Duncaninto the Sec. of Education job.

The latest study by the University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research finds that after 20 years of reform efforts, reading scores in the city's weakest elementary schools didn't budge. An editorial in