Collateral Damage - the effect of school closings on school children

[George Sheridan <learn@jps.net>]

I have been unable to find any information about this study. Do you 
have a web link to the study or to any news coverage? Or will we have 
to wait for coverage in Substance?

George Schmidt wrote:

1/31/07


This morning, a group from Chicago is releasing a major study showing that
school closings in Chicago have damaged thousands of children since 
they became
policy here in 2003. This is a foreshadowing of what is going to come
nationwide when the privatization portion of NCLB kicks in as 
"failing" schools
increase in number. Chicago under Daley has just been way ahead of 
all these ugly
things, just as Texas was under Bush.

The study being released today, conducted by Pauline Lipman (now at the
University of Illinois Chicago) is called "Collateral Damage." 
Hopefully, people
will share it widely in order to prevent the massive national spread of school
closings under No Child Left Behind and an explosion of children who 
are harmed
by them.

For more than ten years Chicago has been
central to the hypocrisy, racism, and child abuse that are central to 
high-stakes
testing and corporate "standards and accountability". Those of us who have
been leading the resistance to that here have some battle scars, but 
at least we
can look our own children in the eye and tell them that we did not participate
in or enable those monstrous things.

And now the pendulum begins to swing, but only if people oppose "No Child
Left Behind" completely.

As we've been saying: Abolition. Not Amelioration.

Become an abolitionist. It clarifies, rather than muddies.

George Schmidt
Editor, Substance
www.substancenews.com



George Sheridan
Northside School
Cool, California 95614