January 25, 2021 Assessment providers and education consultants have feared that the Covid-19 induced move to remote learning has caused a drop in student achievement. Initial findings from the fall of 2020 from a sample of 8,000 schools are in from the NWEA/MAP organization and have been discussed by the Brookings Institute. Here are the […]

Contact: Matthew Greenberg (312) 409-8411 April 3, 2019        HUGE SCORE GAPS EMERGE IN LATEST ADMISSIONS ROUND         Chicago, IL – In the most recent round of Selective Enrollment High School admissions, average Tier 1 scores at the top five schools dropped an average of 17 points while average Tier 4 scores, with little opportunity […]

Contact: Matthew Greenberg (312) 409-8411  April 2, 2018 TOP SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL SCORES SIMMER WHILE BOTTOM STAGNATES      Chicago, IL – In the most recent round of Selective Enrollment High School admissions, scores at the top five schools rose an average of 7 points while scores at the bottom three schools fell an average of […]

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Contact:Matthew Greenberg (312) 409-8411 March 1, 2016 Chicago, IL – In the most recent round of Selective Enrollment High School admissions, average scores rose 8 points as they recovered from the hammering they took the previous year, when CPS replaced the ISAT with the far more rigorous MAP as the 7th grade score component. Use […]

Contact:Matthew Greenberg (312) 409-8411 September 28, 2015 Chicago, IL –Over the summer the Chicago Board of Education “recommended” that Ogden close its International Gifted (IG) program since it is “redundant” with the International Baccalaureate (IB) middle years program and announced its intentions not to accept new student applications for the Ogden IG program.      International Gifted […]

Contact:Matthew Greenberg (312) 409-8411 March 24, 2015       Chicago, IL –In the most recent round of admissions, average scores were flat at the most competitive Academic Centers and fell noticeably at less competitive ones as CPS replaced the ISAT with the more rigorous Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test as the 5th grade standardized test. […]

February 24, 2015 Chicago, IL – In the most recent round of admissions, average scores fell across the board as CPS used the more rigorous Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test as the 7th grade standardized test. This is the first time CPS has used a Common Core aligned test in the Selective Enrollment admissions […]

October 2, 2014 Chicago, IL – CPS has announced that it is providing earlier Academic Center admissions testing for 6th graders than it has in the past. CPS has said that it plans to start Academic Center testing by the end of October – and continue testing into January and February. CPS has announced that […]

August 25, 2014 Chicago, IL – Admissions to Selective Enrollment schools are based on a 900 point scale – 300 points for 7th grade grades, 300 points for 7th grade test scores and 300 points for the Selective Enrollment Exam taken in 8th grade. In the spring of 2014, CPS announced that it was requiring […]