MPS school shows how it's done; Scores soar at Garland, where focus is on what kids learn

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | January 3, 2007| | Copyright

Once upon a time - six years ago, actually - a small elementary school in Milwaukee had bad test scores.

In 2000-'01, in the five academic areas in which fourth-graders statewide are tested, there wasn't one area where at least 40% of the students at Hamlin Garland Elementary School were proficient or better.

A new principal arrived that year who encouraged the teachers to focus on what was actually accomplished in their classrooms - as some of them put it, to examine not what they were teaching but what the children were learning.

That may sound like word games, but they say it was a big ...

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