Re: [xmca] the Chicago Miracle

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

We are discussing deep, structural, ideologically fortified, practices.
mike

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> Athens, GA 30602
> smago@uga.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
> 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>
> Sent by: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> 01/21/2010 04:24 PM
> Please respond to "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
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>        To:     "'eXtended Mind, Culture,       Activity'"
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>        Subject:        [xmca] the Chicago Miracle
>
>
> 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<http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/education/chi-renaissance-2010-17-jan1%0A7,0,3877012.story>
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