What's the no-so-hidden curriculum at Walter Payton College Prep?
I know that Payton kids score high on standardized tests. The question is, what are they learning? What's the hidden curriculum?
Payton was in the news twice last week. Once for being the school of choice for the rich and powerful within CPS's two-tier system of supposedly public education. The other for its refusal to allow their baseball team to play a game at predominantly-black Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep in Roseland. Don't you love all this College
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| Patronage lives: Ald. O'Connor's sister i hired to run school closing transitions. |
“If I had a role in this, she wouldn’t be engaged in the work she’s engaged in." -- Sun-Times. "Key Chicago Public Schools job for alderman’s sister"Matthew Johnson, heads Dewey's Local School Council
"For two days in a row, my son didn't come home with any books because they had to do their inventory, so they basically disrupted the culture of our school and our kids' education." -- DNAInfoRene Heyback, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
"I think 20,000 people have gone through a rigorous series of hearings over 21/2 months and