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Here’s How My Family Escaped the Selective Enrollment Rat Race

Cassandra Kaczocha on November 20, 2019

In the 1980s my parents spent the night in their Toyota Tercel, waiting in a line to get a lottery number to get me tested and into a spot for kindergarten at a magnet school for gifted kids. In 2012, our family waded through an online lottery process to get our oldest into a kindergarten spot at one of Chicago…

You’d Never Convince My Mom to ‘Opt-Out’ of Testing

Chris Butler on March 4, 2016

Opting out. In Chicago and across the country there is a movement that is taking hold that encourages parents, students, teachers and community leaders to “opt out” of standardized tests. Many of the arguments used to promote the idea of opting out (while often exaggerated) are founded. By and large we probably administer too many standardized tests in our public…

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