The COVID-19 pandemic thwarts years of academic improvement for Chicago students – WBEZ (Chicago)

Chicago’s reading scores did not take as dramatic a hit as math, but they still signal troubling rates of proficiency. Seventy-eight percent of CPS fourth graders are not proficient in reading, with 51% of them below basic. And 79% percent of eighth graders are not proficient in reading, with 39% below basic.  
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Pat S.
3 years ago

“…years of academic improvements?” Check out the pre-pandemic 2019 test scores and explain how these represent ‘academic improvements.’

MM
3 years ago

Pritzker thwarts years of academic improvement for Chicago students

Freddy
3 years ago

As a comparison get some data from private schools K-12 who were mostly open. I would like to see a side by side grade by grade comparison to see how they did.

The Paraclete
3 years ago

Wow! Who had the epiphany! Ya mean closing the schools was academically detrimental?

NB
3 years ago

I’m sure if Amendment 1 is passed you won’t even be allowed to know how poorly your kids are doing for all the tax $ you pay as all testing, evaluations or any metric of performance by teachers or students will be declared a systemically racist discrimination bargaining issue. Or any other measure or standard of performance in any other branch of Illinois gov for that matter—just keep $paying$.

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