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Download Issue Vol. XIX Number 2 CHICAGO OCTOBER 2007 INDEPENDENT REPORTING ON URBAN SCHOOLS SAFE HAVEN? A CATALYST ANALYSIS FINDS VIOLENCE IS ON THE RISE IN A THIRD OF SCHOOLS. TEENS SAY NEW STRATEGIES WOULD HELP. Up Close: Hearst turns to data to improve teaching. PAGE 16 A Publication of the Community Renewal Society www.catalyst-chicago.org FROM THE EDITOR Be transparent, listen to kids magine yourself as a teenager living in one and poor instruction. Interesting, rel- evant lessons won’t keep every of the city’s tough neighborhoods. In a fair- unruly student from picking fights. er, more ideal world, when you got to But dull classes, especially in high school, you’d be in a sanctuary where, at schools, don’t help curb violence I either. Kids who are bored are more least for the day, you could escape the troubles likely to cause trouble than those of the community, broaden your horizons and who are busy and engaged. prepare for a better future. LOOKING AHEAD Deputy Editor Lorraine Forte Next March, a CPS-Chicago Yet for too many teens, and even CPS has a chance to be a leader Teachers Union committee is set to younger schoolchildren, schools on this front. The federal No Child unveil a new teacher evaluation aren’t the sanctuaries they should be. Left Behind Act is intended to help process that will replace the current Chicago Public Schools posted a parents sort out the safe schools one. In addition to coming up with heartening decline in school vio- from the unsafe, but Illinois’ criteria sound criteria for identifying and lence last year. But a third of schools, are so weak that parents can’t rely on supporting the best teachers and according to our analysis of CPS it. By providing accurate data on helping struggling teachers to incident reports, still have signifi- incidents of violence to the public, improve, the committee ought to cant problems with fights, gang CPS has a chance to show it’s not take to heart the suggestions of Tim activity and other conflicts. That afraid of tough scrutiny—and might Daly, president of The New Teacher doesn’t bode well for improved even generate momentum for Project: Stop giving seniority raises to learning at these schools. Who can improvement in schools that need unsatisfactory teachers and make expect kids to concentrate on alge- help the most. sure performance, not just seniority, bra or biology when they are nerv- The district also should listen to is a factor that determines which ous that a fight is going to break out kids. They know the problems first- teachers will lose jobs due to budget in the lunchroom or hear gang slo- hand. Arne Duncan and his top cuts. These changes would keep gans exchanged in the halls as a prel- deputies should take the suggestion schools from losing strong newcom- ude to an after-school clash? of a student leader who recommends ers and give the evaluation process Making further inroads on violence surprise visits to find out the real deal some sorely needed heft. needs to start with transparency. Right in schools and get past the dog-and- now, there’s no way to determine pony shows that are staged for CLARIFICATION: In the September whether principals are accurately planned visits. More counseling for issue, we stated that the Golden reporting serious incidents to central troubled kids and strategies such as Apple Awards for Excellence in office so extra resources can be peer juries are called for, too. Metal Teaching are presented to CPS teach- deployed to help out. And parents detectors and security guards may be ers. However, the awards are present- have no easy way to find out what’s an unfortunate necessity at some ed to 10 teachers every year in Cook, going on at their schools. That has to schools in the roughest neighbor- DuPage, Kane, Lake, and Will coun- change. Parents and the public have hoods, but they don’t take the place ties, not just Chicago. the right to know what’s happening of programs that will do more than inside schools, and schools that aren’t impose surface calm. ABOUT US: Editor-in-Chief Veronica reporting incidents—or are racking up Finally, a word about teaching. As Anderson is on sabbatical until mid- police calls that never get reported to one principal told us, some school November. Deputy Editor Lorraine the district—need to know that such violence is, in the final analysis, due Forte will serve as editor-in-chief reporting is a must, not an option. to lack of classroom management during her absence. 2 Catalyst Chicago October 2007 SCHOOL VIOLENCE Making school a sanctuary espite a districtwide decline, violence is up in some schools. Students and others Dsay tougher security measures alone won't solve the problem. CPS is spending $14 million this year on an anti-violence initiative. COVER STORY: PAGE 6 PARENTS WANT THE REAL STORY CPS has yet to make school-level data on serious incidents widely available, and the data that are available aren’t always accurate. PAGE 12 STATE SETS MEANINGLESS STANDARD No Chicago public school has ever been designated as dangerous under No JOHN BOOZ Child Left Behind because the state's criteria don't tell the whole story about CPS security guard Maurice Poole yells out the answer to a question school violence. PAGE 14 during a citywide school safety training session. TEACHING ALTERNATIVES TO FIGHTING ON THE COVER: Tight security measures are in place at Elementary school principals say incentives for positive behavior, a home-like Clemente High, but school administrators says kids also need to environment and conflict-resolution skills help defuse problems. PAGE 15 feel connected to the school. PHOTO BY JOE GALLO. DEPARTMENTS Notebook 4 UP CLOSE Page 16 Viewpoints 18 Success by the numbers Comings & Goings 24 Alicia Garret, a UPDATES Page 20 student at Hearst, wins a school award Ren 2010 part of ON OUR WEB SITE for achieving the contract talks Go to the Catalyst Web site, biggest gains in her Reading curricula www.catalyst-chicago.org, class on 4th-grade narrowed to two for news and resources on Chicago reading tests. See school reform, including: Plan to expand Spanish translations story, page 16. JOHN BOOZ community schools Reform history news highlights www.catalyst-chicago.org October 2007 3 Q&A Notebook with ... Laura Potts Langdon TIMELINE Facing History and Ourselves teacher Sept. 4: IMPACT falters Sept. 8: Home visits Sept. 11: Payroll glitch “Choices in Little Rock,” a social stud- CPS’ new $60 million com- CEO Arne Duncan, School PeopleSoft, CPS’ new $17 ies curriculum developed by the non- puter information system, Board President Rufus million payroll system, profit education organization Facing Instructional Management Williams, other district wreaks havoc on checks for History and Ourselves, examines a piv- Program and Academic officials and community employees and retirees. otal moment in the civil rights move- Communication Tool, caus- volunteers go door-to-door Some retirees are being ment: the integration of Central High es chaos on the first day of in the Englewood commu- underpaid by $800 a month School in Little Rock, Ark. Unlike tradi- school. Students miss class- nity encouraging students while more than 1,600 tional history courses, in which stu- es and disappear from ros- who did not show up dur- recent retirees are receiving dents memorize dates and events, this ters. M. Hill Hammock, the ing the first week of class estimated pension pay- curriculum asks students to make con- district’s chief administra- to enroll in school. Stu- ments and may not get nections between the choices young tive officer, says the system dents who did not show up actual pension payments people faced in the past and those simply is overwhelmed, a at Clemente, Crane, Far- until November. No retirees faced by students today. This year, Fac- problem that may recur on ragut, Harper, Hubbard, have been paid for their ing History will train more middle a few “peak demand” days Kelly, Phillips, Schurz and unused sick days, and about school teachers to teach the Little Rock each year, such as the last Senn high schools also get 1,200 June retirees are owed course. Potts Langdon, an 8th-grade day of school. Despite the visits. Each of those a total of more than $35 mil- social studies teacher at Ames Middle system crash, CPS later schools reported high lion. CPS acknowledges the School in Logan Square, talked to claims a 93 percent first- numbers of dropouts and snafu and blames it on tech- writer Yvon Wang about the impact of day attendance, up slightly poor attendance in the nical issues related to the the curriculum on her students. from last year. 2006-07 school year. start-up of a new system. Why did you start teaching Facing Histo- ELSEWHERE ry and Ourselves? The CPS social studies curriculum was vast ers would get test results more rapidly and textbook-oriented—it was more about Texas: Recovering dropouts through the online system. Students would breadth than depth. The Facing History cur- A new law will give school districts an also have to take the ACT and college and incentive to re-enroll young adult dropouts career readiness tests. The plan was devel- riculum combines social studies, literature and by helping to defray the costs of educating oped by the state schools superintendent the humanities. It made me understand that them, according to the Sept. 14 Houston and a group of state educators. teaching isn’t about these little disparate Chronicle.
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