For Whom The Stakes Toll
Motivated by Anthony's fine piece here, I also said a few things to the Secretary.
To follow up on Nancy's comment above about high-stakes.
I believe the Secretary has silently endorsed the idea that high-stakes now apply to parents. Charter schools, after all, have found that "counseling-out" difficult-to-teach students is a highly effective method to prop-up their data. The counseled-out students return to the traditional public schools.
For example, Chicago's celebrated Urban Prep has managed to find college placements for its entire 2010 graduating class; however, its graduation rate is far lower than the Chicago Public Schools in general. Those are high stakes, for everyone except the charter school and its
