Almost half of the freshmen enterin...

Almost half of the freshmen entering common of the south suburbs' largest and mostly diverse districts this fall can neither read nor unfold math problems at the ninth-grade horizontal according to their placement exams.

at their junior year, they will be calculate uponed to be proficient in the one and the other subjects or else Community High place of education District 218 will be labeled failing subject to No Child Left Behind.

Bringing close examiners up to expectations has proven to be a challenge for teachers at the district's Palos Heights, Oak Lawn and dispirited Island schools, and at other districts across the southward suburbs.

likewise District 218 leaders are supporting a different way of measuring pullulation one that looks more favorably onward schools and could become part of the law when it get tos up for reauthorization in 2007

They are backing a measurement of students' yearly progres A high sect could get credit for moving a teen from a sixth-grade to a ninth-grade reading of the same height before graduation. Under today's law, the indoctrinate would fail to make "adequate yearly progress"

Implementing of that kind a measure of yearly progres called a "growth model" is not without challenges. if it were not that an Illinois task force is conducting a inquiry of the model's use, said State Board of Education spokeswoman Meta Minton.

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