ISATgate gets even uglier, as Mayor Rahm’s CPS investigators try to turn teachers against teachers.
Tag: ISAT
Posted inBlogs
Mayor Rahm sends in the ISAT inspectors to Drummond elementary school
Just when you thought Mayor Rahm had done all the damage he could do to our schools, CPS starts pulling kids out of the classroom to rat on their teachers.
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ISAT drills in the age of Mayor Rahm
More ISAT madness in Chicago—spending money to teach teachers how to teach kids how to take a meaningless standardized test.
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ISAT follies—making up the school code
Mayor Rahm and his allies at the State Board of Education apparently make up the ISAT rules as they happily go along.
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Mayor Rahm to Chicago: Take your tests and shut up!
Mayor Rahm makes a mountain out of an ISAT molehill.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time?
Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Today’s lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools
There are no charters in the top ten schools in Chicago. None in the top 20, 30, or 40 either.