Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Mayor Johnson’s plan to wipe out Chicago’s selective enrollment and magnet schools, how Illinois unions continue to empower themselves rather than the public they’re supposed to serve, how universities across Illinois’ heavily fund DEI programs and administrators and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- The costs of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Illinois universities
- The Equality of Failure in Chicago
- In the name of equity, Chicago looks to close schools with top-performing black, Hispanic students
- RIP Norman Lear. Fifty years ago he scorned Chicago Public Schools for its failures. His criticisms still matter today.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
This is the communists consolidating and unifying their power and their base. CTU is a Marxist Union. Anything that is a threat to their power should be replaced, remade, or eliminated. Erasing history is important to communists. Communists must destroy institutions of religion, family, and any symbols of the establishment. This is so they can erect the new establishment of the state and replace it with a new version of history. Think Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin, if you think they care about education you are sadly mistaken. What they care about is indoctrination. The Mayor is a diehard Marxist who… Read more »
How much of the difference in reading scores at selective enrollment schools can be attributed to better teachers, and how much to parental involvement?
Mostly driven by parental involvement, student desire, and removal of difficult students that hinder the learning of others. There is nothing magical about the teachers at those schools nor the buildings.
There’s extensive researching showing that a significant component of IQ is nature, and not nurture. The high test scorers at any given school are likely a result of the more intelligent children. That’s how they test into the selective schools. However, long term success at these schools is related to parental involvement. An intelligent, high scoring student without better teachers and parental involvement would be less likely to succeed in a selective school. That’s not to say that less intelligent students at local schools can’t learn. They most definitely can learn, but the speed of learning needs to be slower… Read more »