Why test-based school reform isn’t working — by the numbers
Award-winning Prinicipal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York has been exposing the problems with New York’s botched school reform effort for a long time on this blog. (You can read some of her work here, here, here, here, and here.) In the following post she looks at irrefutable data to show that the test-based reforms […]
Study: High school grades best predictor of college success — not SAT/ACT scores
A three-year national study of colleges that do not require applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores found only “trivial” differences in the college graduation rates or the cumulative grade point average of students between those who do and those who do not send in their standardized test results. The study, titled “Defining Promise: Optional Standardized […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 2-22-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetJon Stewart rips bill allowing teachers, parents to hit kids hard enough to bruisePut this in the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category: A legislator in Kansas was pushing legislation to allow teachers and parents to whack kids hard enough to bruise. Why? Out of the mistaken belief that beating up children is an effective disciplinary method. The good ne
