RE: [xmca] the Chicago Miracle

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

The reason I pasted in these excerpts is they show that it's clear the
program isn't working as planned, and yet, they choose to believe it's
working nonetheless. So much for the infallibility of data in efforts like
this.

Peter Smagorinsky
Professor of English Education 
Department of Language and Literacy Education
The University of Georgia
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
smago@uga.edu


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Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:59 AM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] the Chicago Miracle

Peter:

It would in fact appear that Duncan's "Race to the Top"  may indeed leave 
some children behind.

eric




"Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>
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01/21/2010 04:24 PM
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Six years after Mayor Richard Daley
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics/government/richard-m.-daley-PE
PLT007475.topic>  launched a bold initiative to close down and remake
failing schools, Renaissance 2010 has done little to improve the 
educational
performance of the city's school system, according to a Tribune analysis 
of
2009 state test data.

The moribund test scores follow other less than enthusiastic findings 
about
Renaissance 2010 -- that displaced students ended up mostly in other
low-performing schools and that mass closings led to youth violence as 
rival
gang members ended up in the same classrooms. Together, they suggest the
initiative hasn't lived up to its promise by this, its target year.

"We haven't looked at all the data, but our belief is that Renaissance 
2010
dramatically improved the educational options in communities across
Chicago," said Peter Cunningham, Duncan's spokesman, who followed him from
Chicago to Washington
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/us/washington-PLGEO100104900000000.topi
c> . "We believe that it is contributing to Chicago's overall success.
Renaissance 2010 and Race to the Top both reflect a willingness to be 
bold,
hold yourself to higher standards and push for dramatic change, not
incremental change."

http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/education/chi-renaissance-2010-17-jan1
7,0,3877012.story

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