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Home » standardized tests

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Posted inNews & Politics

Eve Ewing still believes in Chicago’s public schools

by Maya Dukmasova October 25, 2018August 18, 2021

The new book Ghosts in the Schoolyard explains why people care so much about institutions that the world has deemed “failing.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The REACH test is a waste of time

by Ben Joravsky November 11, 2015August 18, 2021

To evaluate Chicago teachers, students have to take another standardized test.

Wells is making progress. Attendance and the on-track rate for graduation are better than they've been in years, and course failures have fallen.
Posted inNews & Politics

The trials of a neighborhood high school

by Steve Bogira May 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Wells Community Academy in West Town has many problems—and some rare successes. Can it survive?

Posted inBlogs

ISAT drills in the age of Mayor Rahm

by Ben Joravsky March 7, 2014August 18, 2021

More ISAT madness in Chicago—spending money to teach teachers how to teach kids how to take a meaningless standardized test.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago school officials eliminate a standardized test

by Steve Bogira April 26, 2013August 19, 2021

One test bites the dust. Will others?

Posted inBlogs

High-stakes standardized testing: accountability, or inherent corruption?

by Steve Bogira April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Business leaders as well as educators have been tarnished by the scandal in Atlanta.

Daisy Maass, an eighth grader at Skinner West, with her mother, Marlene Martin. Daisy opted out of standardized tests this year.
Posted inNews & Politics

Standardized testing overkill at CPS

by Steve Bogira March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Even Chicago school officials allow that they’re giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?

Posted inBlogs

What does the MAP test cost Chicago Public Schools?

by Steve Bogira February 11, 2013August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inBlogs

Chicago parents and teachers unite against standardized testing

by Steve Bogira February 6, 2013August 18, 2021

A teacher boycott of a test in Seattle has energized local opposition.

Posted inBlogs

Will the standardized testing boycott spread to Chicago?

by Steve Bogira February 1, 2013August 18, 2021

“We are likely to start seeing a more active anti-testing movement in Chicago,” CTU president Karen Lewis says.

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