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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
Time to pay teachers based on merit and add bonuses for improvement. If they don't want to teach then fire them.
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 teachers 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 advancedfor a total of 21 percent who rated proficient or better.
Time to pay teachers based on merit and add bonuses for improvement. If they don't want to teach then fire them.