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...principal was an "old pro" accustomed to dealing with the Chicago school bureaucracy, as opposed to the Taft principal, who had come from a suburban school to the urban Taft...
...Taft's disheartened principal ended up leaving the Chicago public school system at the end of Glass' year there, announcing his resignation and calling for the demise of the system as it then existed...
...problems at Taft were four-fold, Glass said: Teachers did not agree with the changes, the principal tried to implement too many reforms at once; the design of the reform was flawed, containing inherently bad ideas; and the bureaucracy impeded progress...
...Some Taft teachers also resented the efforts at reform, saying that the changes did not affect what was going on inside the classroom, Glass said...
While dropout rates, standardized test scores and teacher morale went down at Taft during its reform period, at Irving they rose and are still rising, Glass said...