Comments on: Chicago school reforms fail to raise scores http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/01/chicago-school-reforms-fail-to-raise-scores/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chicago school reforms fail to raise scores « Joanne Jacobs Image http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/01/chicago-school-reforms-fail-to-raise-scores/#comment-54492 Chicago school reforms fail to raise scores « Joanne Jacobs Image Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:21:18 +0000 http://www.joannejacobs.com/?p=13034#comment-54492 [...] post:  Chicago school reforms fail to raise scores « Joanne Jacobs Tags: 2010-initiative, chicago, chicago-tribune, daley, improve-educational, mayor, mayor-richard, [...] [...] post:  Chicago school reforms fail to raise scores « Joanne Jacobs Tags: 2010-initiative, chicago, chicago-tribune, daley, improve-educational, mayor, mayor-richard, [...]

]]> By: Claus http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/01/chicago-school-reforms-fail-to-raise-scores/#comment-54491 Claus Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:39:43 +0000 http://www.joannejacobs.com/?p=13034#comment-54491 The article failed to note that another intervention, Strategic Learning Initiatives, managed to improve struggling schools very substantially without firing teachers or the principal. An AIR validation study found that SLI's schools' improvement far outpaced that of other schools in CPS. Two SLI elementary schools apparently made the largest ISAT gains of 473 elementary schools in the system. This isn't to take away from achievements of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, which seem impressive. But it's important to acknowledge that several strategies--including those that don't begin with staff replacements--have been effective. The article failed to note that another intervention, Strategic Learning Initiatives, managed to improve struggling schools very substantially without firing teachers or the principal. An AIR validation study found that SLI’s schools’ improvement far outpaced that of other schools in CPS. Two SLI elementary schools apparently made the largest ISAT gains of 473 elementary schools in the system.

This isn’t to take away from achievements of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, which seem impressive. But it’s important to acknowledge that several strategies–including those that don’t begin with staff replacements–have been effective.

]]> By: teach? http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/01/chicago-school-reforms-fail-to-raise-scores/#comment-54490 teach? Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:02:47 +0000 http://www.joannejacobs.com/?p=13034#comment-54490 So are these the results we can expect from Race To the Top? When are they going to stop creating random programs and blaming teachers when they don't work? Why not just ask US what works in our classrooms? So are these the results we can expect from Race To the Top? When are they going to stop creating random programs and blaming teachers when they don’t work? Why not just ask US what works in our classrooms?

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