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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat “F”

NYC Public School Parents: Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat “F”:

Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat “F”


Gary Rubinstein, a math teacher at Stuyvesant, totally outclasses the numerous education reporters in this city in his analysis of the recent school grades.

He shows via this graph to the right and discusses in his blog how there is little or no correlation in rank order for schools between last year or this year's progress reports.

(Incidentally, in a subsequent posting, Rubinstein also points out that NYC charters are twiceas likely to get "Fs" in progress than non-charters.)

Unfortunately the mainstream media continue to repeat without dispute Suransky’s claim that