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Tag: standardized tests
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The REACH test is a waste of time
To evaluate Chicago teachers, students have to take another standardized test.
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The trials of a neighborhood high school
Wells Community Academy in West Town has many problems—and some rare successes. Can it survive?
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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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Chicago school officials eliminate a standardized test
One test bites the dust. Will others?
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High-stakes standardized testing: accountability, or inherent corruption?
Business leaders as well as educators have been tarnished by the scandal in Atlanta.
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Standardized testing overkill at CPS
Even Chicago school officials allow that they’re giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?
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What does the MAP test cost Chicago Public Schools?
Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Chicago schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, addressing the Chicago Urban League in November. “We need to acknowledge that the community simply does not trust what we say or what we do,” Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said in November. This was during a speech to the Chicago Urban League, three weeks after Rahm […]
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Chicago parents and teachers unite against standardized testing
A teacher boycott of a test in Seattle has energized local opposition.
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Will the standardized testing boycott spread to Chicago?
“We are likely to start seeing a more active anti-testing movement in Chicago,” CTU president Karen Lewis says.