Diane Ravitch Says “Yuck” to This Idea
Barry Salzberg and J. B. Schramm from College Summit, a nonprofit that partners with high schools to build college-going cultures, write in Forbes about the value of providing information to high schools on how their graduates actually fare in college:
Charles Thomas, the principal of Crossland High School, in Prince George’s County, Md., lifted his school’s performance from among the county’s worst to among its best in just six years. His success has been heralded in the Harvard Business Review and on the U.S. Department of Education’s “What Works” website. But even he admits that without data, he has to rely on the occasional fortuitous anecdote.
“One day a mother of one of our star graduates said her daughter was struggling with college