Finally we found out what the USD116 administrators care about. In the beginning we were just trying to talk to them about closing the performance gap, about finding the weak spots in addressing illiteracy, about principled resource optimization… they didn’t reply to our emails, as if we didn’t exist. But as soon as we touched […]
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This thread of posts was triggered by the investigation of (as we discovered, quite opportunistic and useless) “equity audits” providers that Urbana School District 116 (USD116) was planning to hire. As is common, the research forced us to consider the broader context, in particular to study comparative performance of three school districts in metro areas
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The initiative by Urbana School District 116 to retain a questionable company, Systemic Educational Equity LLC (further, SEE LLC) which we described in the previous post stalled, for now. (TL;DR: the company sells lazy copy-paste concoctions called Equity Audits, to school districts eager to put Paid in the rubric scoring their efforts on overcoming educational
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Urbana, IL is the home of the Illinois premier public university, a famed powerhouse of research and education. Yet, the town itself struggles to teach its kids to read, write, analyze. By any educational metric, the school district, USD116, is lagging compared to demographically or economically similar districts in the state. And the disadvantaged kids
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