Daley hold press conference to announce high school test scores have gone 'up' again

[Hannah Bell]

If Chicago's schools were an intensive care ward, the nurses and other professionals would be watching a machine showing a patient had been flat lining while Big Nurse proclaimed — and everyone agreed — that the patient was doing fine, and that the evidence on the screen proved that things had even been getting better.

So it was on one of the hotter days in the summer of 2010, as Chicago's mayor assembled the city's dwindling press corp to report another example of how test scores in the city's public high schools had been going 'up' again even though they haven't.

Surrounded by a large group of students, Chicago Public Schools administrators, and politicians, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced on July 27, 2010, that Chicago's high school test scores had gone 'up' for the 15th year in a row. That's the amount of time since Daley was given complete control of the nation's third largest public school system in 1995...

On the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE), Chicago's high school remain at the bottom of the state, and there has been no progress in the general high schools. Even with the data presented in the most unusual format (no data sets were given; only percentages were provided by CPS staff; no questions on the underlying data were taken), it was clear from the information that was in front of reporters that something had gone wrong. Despite all the claims — now national policy — that Chicago's 'model' was a success, Chicago's own numbers, presented in the best light by Chicago school officials, showed the opposite was true...

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1569§ion=Article


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