Norm-referenced tests still being used to make high-stakes decisions
Setting up many students for failure, the Chicago public schools uses the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) as a high-stakes test. It’s impossible for all test takers to score well. Despite being reasonably well-informed . . .
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BOARDWATCH JANUARY 22, 2014... '...We�ve seen an alarming number of students being admitted to the hospital with depression, severe anxiety, and increasingly with actual suicide attempts all directly tied to these (charter) schools� discipline, academic, and retention policies...'
[Editor's Note: For more than ten years, Substance he been following the stories about how Michael Milkie, founder of the "Noble Network of Charter Schools," has been forcing his "failing" students to return to the . . .
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Paul Tough is way off-base in his latest apologetic for corporate 'school reform' — And Stop Saying 'Grit'!
[Susan Ohanian forwards the following essay. This is by a Chicago teacher. Posted in @ the chalkface http://atthechalkface.com/2012/09/30/paul-tough-is-way-off-base-and-stop-saying-grit/. This originally appeared as Paul Tough Is Way Off-Base. And Stop Saying “Grit", September 30, 2012 by . . .
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The University of Chicago should be ashamed... Geoffrey Canada is no Dr. King
Last Thursday, January 12, 2012, Superman himself landed in Chicago. Geoffrey Canada is the founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) in New York City, star of the pro-charter, edu-documentary "Waiting for Superman", and guest . . .
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