How one Chicago principal is leaning on data to help black boys Test scores were rising at Fuller Elementary School when Marilyn McCottrell took over in 2016. Yet troubling trends loomed behind the numbers. “A lot of growth has been made,” said McCottrell, Fuller’s third principal in six years. “But that growth is not equal among students.” She’s talking about black boys. Black girls had driven most of Fuller’s academic improvement since the 2012-13 school year, when Chicago Public Schools handed management of the Bronzeville school over to the non-profit Academy for Urban School Leadership, which replaced the staff and principal in a turnaround effort. Black boys had improved much slower. They ... Continue reading... https://urbanfaith.com/2018/11/how-one-chicago-principal-is-leaning-on-data-to-help-black-boys.html/
