Check the Dashboard and Ditch the Niche
Even if it's flawed, California's school accountability dashboard moves the state in the right direction....
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Ed. Dept. concedes ratings are problematic for colleges – what about K-12?
What remains to be seen is whether or not the Education Department will apply similar logic to any other decisions in their limited remaining time, or if this was an isolated incidence of common sense...
Maybe We Don’t Need School Ratings
Maybe the bigger problem in education policy is too many stakeholders who prefer to have a meaningless “A” or “D” slapped on a school, rather than understand and express the complex realities ...