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Chicago's mixed record on school reform.(USA)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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January 9, 2008
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Byline: Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Chicago -- When President Bush marked the sixth anniversary of his landmark No Child Left Behind reforms this week, he did it at a Chicago elementary school that has shown impressive gains over the past few years.
In many ways, Chicago - a city that embraced accountability, standards-based reforms, and consequences for failing schools even before the 2001 law mandated them - is a perfect place to examine how such reforms are playing out.
"Chicago's been lucky for having a real reform history and maybe even a little innovation tossed in with that," says John Easton, executive director of the ...