Study finds Chicago school closures did not help student achievement
A report on the controversial closures of low-performing and under-enrolled Chicago schools during 2001-06 showed the closures had little effect on student achievement, mostly because many of the students from the closed schools were placed in other failing schools. However, the research showed that the 6% of students who ended up at top schools showed significant gains in learning. The research did not look at what happened after 2006 when then-Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan -- now secretary of education -- switched from a strategy of closing schools to a turnaround approach of reopening schools with a new staff.
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