Dan Walters: New school data fuel old debate
Published: Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 - 10:18 am
As 6 million California kids head back to school, the adults who are supposed to provide for their educations are engaged, as usual, in their circular debate over effects and causes.
A few days ago, the state Department of Education began releasing the annual flood of data about educational performance that is supposed to shed light on what's happening but more often causes confusion and generates political heat.
The first wave was a report on standardized testing aimed