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Jr. There is much to celebrate in the improvement in student achievement in the elementary schools of Chicago. Since 1990, the percentage of students scoring at or above national norms in reading has increased by 11.2 percentage points, while the percentage in math has increased by 12.5 points. After some small decreases from 1990 to 1992, as newly empowered schools were getting organized under school-based management reforms, progress was fairly steady in both reading and math. But there is still more to do. The target in the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act was that 50 percent would be at national norms in both subjects in five years.