There was a report on how Chicago
public school students have academically recovered from COVID 19
pandemic declines. Which is good, but are the Chicago Public Schools
helping students who are on a path to becoming neighborhood criminals.
Marc Sims
Chicago
CPS students’ reading gains rank among top 3 large districts in the nation, study finds
Research by Harvard and Stanford universities found Chicago’s 3rd- to 8th-grade students outpaced most similar districts in reading growth from 2019 to 2023, while Illinois was one of only three states whose reading achievement now exceeds 2019 levels.
Chicago Public Schools Recover From Pandemic Declines More Than Other Districts, Study Shows
Elaine Allensworth, Lewis-Sebring Director of the UChicago Consortium, said the findings were “exciting and surprising,” but also a little puzzling because attendance is still low and absenteeism is still high.
In Chicago between 2019 and 2023 we lost something like 30ish thousand kids from the school system. So you know the the Harvard and Stanford study is um what they're doing is super helpful they're trying to give us a picture of how things are changing but they're looking at average test scores for basically different groups of kids in 2019 to 2023.
Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago's Crime and Education Labs)
https://youtu.be/uTbE54SSSIs?si=CChpF8OxV_KoN8NO&t=1601
