School Ratings
Aug 3rd, 2009 by David Anderson
The state has released the ratings for your local schools. What do they really mean? As usual there is no context given, but the good news it that we actually have some mechanism to begin rating our schools. The problem is that after a decade and half we have yet to come up with a meaningful system which answers one simple question. Which schools teach children better? Without knowing where the students started the year and where those same students ended, the numbers have little meaning.
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