U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading

[ScienceRocks]

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U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading By Terence P. Jeffrey September 10, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-nine percent of the 8th graders in the Chicago Public Schools are not grade-level proficient in reading, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and 80 percent are not grade-level proficient in math.

Chicago public school teachers went on strike on Monday and one of the major issues behind the strike is a new system Chicago plans to use for evaluating public school teachers in which student improvement on standardized tests will count for 40 percent of a teacher’s evaluation. Until now, the evaluations of Chicago public school teachers have been based on what a Chicago Sun Times editorial called a “meaningless checklist.”

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education administered National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in reading and math to students around the country, including in the Chicago Public Schools. The tests were scored on a scale of 0 to 500, with 500 being the best possible score. Based on their scores, the U.S. Department of Education rated students’ skills in reading and math as either “below basic,” “basic,” “proficient” or “advanced.”

Nationally, public school 8th graders scored an average of 264 on the NAEP reading test. Statewide in Illinois, the 8th graders did a little better, scoring an average of 266. But in the Chicago Public Schools, 8th graders scored an average of only 253 in reading. That was lower even than the nationwide average of 255 among 8th graders in “large city” public schools.

With these NAEP test results, only 19 percent of Chicago public school 8th graders rated proficient in reading while another 2 percent rated advanced—for a total of 21 percent who rated proficient or better.

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Time to pay teachers based on merit and add bonuses for improvement. If they don't want to teach then fire them.

 

[RoadVirus]

Too busy gangbanging to read.

 

[Rozman]

I'm just wondering how that whole "Hope and Change" thingy is working out for those people...

I was gonna say Chicago but then my post would be considered racist because I used a dogwhistle coded word or some such dumb ass thing.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I'm just wondering how that whole "Hope and Change" thingy is working out for those people...

I was gonna say Chicago but then my post would be considered racist because I used a dogwhistle coded word or some such dumb ass thing.

Telling a certain group of people the truth=racist. That's what I call incapable of being reasoned with.

 

[whitehall]

I heard a brief soundbite from a spokeswoman for the teachers union strikers and she sounded like an ignorant street person. What do you expect from the kids? It seems like the radical left wants to run Chicago like a small socialist country where the elites work for the government and the rabble struggles in poverty or deals with confiscatory taxes to support the government.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I heard a brief soundbite from a spokeswoman for the teachers union strikers and she sounded like an ignorant street person. What do you expect from the kids? It seems like the radical left wants to run Chicago like a small socialist country where the elites work for the government and the rabble struggles in poverty or deals with confiscatory taxes to support the government.

Yep,

This is why I hate socialism. It holds people down.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Can't read, can't write, they sound like the Progressives that post at USMB. Maybe Chicago is a training ground for them?

 

[Leweman]

Racist!!!!!

 

[regent]

With so many Chicago students not reading at grade level one would think the people in charge would have analyzed the problem and corrected it long ago. We all agree that children should not only read at grade level but read above grade level. Certainly, if it can be done in Lake Wobegon it can be done in Chicago.
What's wrong with teachers and teacher unions they just keep bringing up these educational problems; if they just kept quiet like the education leaders there would be no problems. I can see why people get upset with teachers and teacher unions.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is what happens when you allow marxist to run a school system. FAILURE and low standards....

What a crack of shit. Fire them all.

 

[IanC]

I bet the school districts surrounding Chicago, and the private schools in Chicago are doing much better.

demographics isnt everything but it can't be totally ignored either

 

[daveman]

Those damn anti-education Republicans!

 

[editec]

U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in ReadingCNSNews ^

U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading | cnsnews.com

U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading By Terence P. Jeffrey September 10, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-nine percent of the 8th graders in the Chicago Public Schools are not grade-level proficient in reading, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and 80 percent are not grade-level proficient in math.

Chicago public school teachers went on strike on Monday and one of the major issues behind the strike is a new system Chicago plans to use for evaluating public school teachers in which student improvement on standardized tests will count for 40 percent of a teacher’s evaluation. Until now, the evaluations of Chicago public school teachers have been based on what a Chicago Sun Times editorial called a “meaningless checklist.”

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education administered National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in reading and math to students around the country, including in the Chicago Public Schools. The tests were scored on a scale of 0 to 500, with 500 being the best possible score. Based on their scores, the U.S. Department of Education rated students’ skills in reading and math as either “below basic,” “basic,” “proficient” or “advanced.”

Nationally, public school 8th graders scored an average of 264 on the NAEP reading test. Statewide in Illinois, the 8th graders did a little better, scoring an average of 266. But in the Chicago Public Schools, 8th graders scored an average of only 253 in reading. That was lower even than the nationwide average of 255 among 8th graders in “large city” public schools.

With these NAEP test results, only 19 percent of Chicago public school 8th graders rated proficient in reading while another 2 percent rated advanced—for a total of 21 percent who rated proficient or better.

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Time to pay teachers based on merit and add bonuses for improvement. If they don't want to teach then fire them.

Now there's a plan that will not work.

Imagine that you're a teacher offered a job to teach truly educationally deficient children under those circumstances.

Why would you even bother to take that job?

 

[blimpo]

If you had any sense you wouldn't.

On the other hand, if you had any sense you wouldn't go into education at all.

In the last 5 years I have tried to discourage, in the strongest terms, any college-bound students from majoring in education. I told them anything that ails in society, the blame will be laid in your laps. Little did I know how right I was.
Many posts on here raise me almost to the level of a psychic. I need to bet on the ponies more often..

And to Matthew-- I taught for many years and I truly never saw a teacher that "refused to teach", but I saw hundreds upon hundreds of students that didn't give two shits about learning..

 

[psikeyhackr]

Well in the years that I was in school in Chicago not one teacher gave me a book I wanted to read.

I found this on my own.

Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Star-Surgeon-Alan-Nourse/dp/1598180657]Star Surgeon: Alan Nourse: 9781598180657: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

LibriVox » Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse
Review of Star Sugeon by Alan E. Nourse : SFFaudio

Of course MP3 audio books did not exist back then. But now there is:

Deathworld I (1960) by Harry Harrison
Deathworld
LibriVox » Deathworld by Harry Harrison

Deathworld II (The Ethical Engineer) (1964) by Harry Harrison
The Ethical Engineer
LibriVox » The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

Thinking as a Science (1916) by Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt - Thinking as a Science
LibriVox » Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

psik

 

[blimpo]

Well in the years that I was in school in Chicago not one teacher gave me a book I wanted to read.

I found this on my own.

Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse
Star Surgeon: Alan Nourse: 9781598180657: Amazon.com: Books

LibriVox » Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse
Review of Star Sugeon by Alan E. Nourse : SFFaudio

Of course MP3 audio books did not exist back then. But now there is:

Deathworld I (1960) by Harry Harrison
Deathworld
LibriVox » Deathworld by Harry Harrison

Deathworld II (The Ethical Engineer) (1964) by Harry Harrison
The Ethical Engineer
LibriVox » The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

Thinking as a Science (1916) by Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt - Thinking as a Science
LibriVox » Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

psik

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