Did Consortium sugarcoat their turnaround findings?
An editorial by Catalyst publisher Linda Lenz in this morning’s Sun-Times throws more fuel on the firestorm over the Consortium on Chicago School Research’s latest report on Chicago Public Schools turnarounds, which has become one of the Consortium’s most controversial.
As the Tribune reported, the study’s co-author, Elaine Allensworth, said the report was released early because of rumors circulating about its findings. A final study will be released in a few weeks. The report was to have been co-issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, but the federal agency did not sign off on it due to concerns that it might suggest the study was intended to answer more complex questions