Fwd: [arn2-strategy] Fw: two good articles from Chicago

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>
> Date: Wed Mar 5, 2008  10:41:23 AM US/Pacific
> To: "ARN-L" <arn-l@interversity.org>, "arn2-strategy"  
> <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [arn2-strategy] Fw: two good articles from Chicago
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Parents United for Responsible Education" <pure@pureparents.org>
>
>
> > From the Daily Herald,  
> > http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=145979
> > about a recent presentation by the Chicago Consortium's Elaine
> > Allensworth:
> >
> > Course performance, she said, is a much more powerful predictor (of  
> > ACT
> > performance) than any other background predictor, including race,  
> > gender,
> > mobility or Illinois Standards Achievement Test, or ISAT, test  
> > scores....
> > Following students into their junior year of high school, low ACT  
> > scores
> > result from test prep taking away from course instruction.
> >
> > "Schools who spend less time on ACT test prep and more time on  
> > instruction
> > have better scores," Allensworth said. Class time prep for the  
> > WorkKeys
> > portion of the Prairie State Achievement Exam is also found to have a
> > direct effect on low ACT scores, she said.
> >
> >
> > AND an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times -
> > http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/825569,CST-EDT- 
> > edit05A.article#
> >
> > ...Good teachers know in their hearts that true learning requires far  
> > more
> > than endlessly drilling for standardized tests.
> >
> > So it's a shame that visits by school groups at Chicago's 10 Museums  
> > in
> > the Park are down more than 220,000 students -- almost a 17 percent
> > drop -- since 2000. Just last week, a Chicago middle school canceled a
> > trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. The principal told a  
> > teacher
> > that the visit would take away from prepping for the Illinois  
> > Standards
> > Achievement Tests, said Andrea Ingram, vice president for education  
> > and
> > guest experiences at the museum."
>
>
>
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