We didn’t need a survey to tell us this
What do parents really want when itcomes to school reform? Gregory Michie, a public school teacher in Chicago and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice at Concordia University Chicago, looks into the issue in Chicago, where tensions are high over the newly announced closing of 54 public schools. His latest book is “We Don’t Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibilty in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling.”By Gregory Michie
Chicagoans are ready for education reform. That’s the conclusion the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board draws from a new survey about the city’s schools it commissioned with the Joyce Foundation.
Of course, by “education reform,” the Tribune means its preferred version of change, which hews closely to the playbook of business-minded reformers: more testing, more charter