High school reform in Chicago public schools

A suite of five new studies examines the Chicago school district’s work to improve its high schools. It finds “a few hopeful signs,” but “no dramatic improvements.”

The studies, issued Aug. 19 by SRI International, based in Menlo Park, Calif., and the Consortium on Chicago School Research, discuss the district's theory of change and several key strands of the work it undertook in support of that theory...