Chicago Public Schools principals soon will be able to administer special assessments to test student skills, receive immediate results, and use those results to decide how to solve problems, according to schools chief Ron Huberman.I'm for it! Read the whole thing!
Huberman told hundreds of school principals gathered at the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on Tuesday that he wants to move more money out of the central office and into the schools. He said he wanted to give principals more power to address their schools' particular needs. But he wants decisions based on real data, drawn from skill assessments.
"You're given the freedom, but you can't make those decisions based on hunches," Huberman explained at an editorial board meeting at the Sun-Times before the principals' meeting Tuesday. "You have to make them based on the analytical framework we're providing."
Huberman emphasized that the assessments, now in development, are not "tests" that students will be graded on, but a way to find out what students need. He said he wants to create a "data-driven culture," so the schools can know "how every student is doing, how is every teacher doing, and how is every school doing, with the goal of constantly improving."
The assessments will be taken by students online to allow for quick results. Huberman plans a large technology investment for the coming school year.
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