The Educational Attainment of Chicago Public Schools Students
Key Findings
Freshman OnTrack
Remote learning during Chicago coronavirus pandemic creates added challenges
Students in Chicago and many in the suburbs have been out of the classroom for months now because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But a recent report by McKinsey and Company found that with remote learning, students -- on average -- are likely to have experienced nine months of learning loss in math...
‘No one taught us how to do this’
When kindergarten teacher Tabitha Brown received her class list for this fall, there were 27 names on it. But then her school, Global Village Academy, a charter north of Denver, announced it would start the year virtually. The list dropped to 18.
Six weeks later, enrollment inched upward as the school reopened, only to fall again in a month when it closed due to rising COVID-19 cases. Brown’s class is just one example of the disruption affecting classrooms as students fall off the radar...
New study shows positive trends in Chicago computer science education
As this year’s Computer Science Education Week draws to a close, the events of 2020 and a shift to a virtual learning environment has shone a spotlight on the importance of access to CS learning opportunities for all students.
In 2013, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) led the nation in the expansion of CS education with the CS for All (CS4ALL) initiative, a CME Group Foundation grantee, and later made computer science a graduation requirement...
The empty gradebook
When Ana Barros drew up a list of students who were about to fail her class this fall, it was longer than she expected: 22 students out of 86.
What most distressed Barros, who teaches sixth-grade social studies at a charter school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was that her list included students who didn’t seem like they were struggling — students who had been participating in virtual class, but hadn’t turned in assignment after assignment...
From Pasco to St. Paul, how to target kids for success, not crime
A recent Tampa Bay Times investigation reported that the Pasco Sheriff’s Office “keeps a secret list of kids it thinks could ‘fall into a life of crime.’” Triangulating data from multiple public agencies, like histories of abuse from child welfare and academic failure from the school system, the office generated a prediction of more than 400 students who may become criminals. One can only imagine how a list like this could be used.