Sentences with phrase «about school quality»

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

Much of the public conversation about school quality rests on a reasonable assumption, namely that we can reliably assess school quality by the measures currently in use.

They need a network of other adults they trust who know about school quality and, specifically, about the quality of the available schools, to help them understand their options.

We find no evidence that respondents in general, or even parents, have information about school quality beyond the information provided on the state assessments.

This does not demonstrate that charter schools are superior to magnet schools, as we do not have any direct evidence about school quality independent of parental perceptions.

We demand excellence through meaningful standards and robust accountability about school quality and student progress from early childhood through postsecondary education.

Perhaps there are misconceptions about school quality — or the persistent belief that students can succeed regardless of school.

Instead, we should rely on the judgments of those closer to the situation, including parents, who have better information about school quality.

But in the evolving landscape of public education, with ever - present conversations about school choice and concerns about school quality, that is changing.

Importantly, disadvantaged segments of the population are no less informed about school quality than other citizens.

For years, student test scores drove much of the conversation about school quality and student learning.

«Do Students Care about School Quality?

Prospective home buyers would still be misled about school quality, but they wouldn't be steered anywhere in particular.

But administrative targets for enrollment rates and overwrought rhetoric from international commissions, as well as more measured alarms about school quality, do not in themselves create the incentive to grow.

Thus far we have focused on how the NCLB accountability lens provides misleading information about school quality within states.

The concerns about school quality expressed in A Nation at Risk reflected declining trends in performance among U.S. students and their mediocre standing relative to students in other nations.

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«Current accreditation systems are set up to be honest brokers about school quality and set a low bar for what that looks like,» said Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether Education Partners.

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Jay Greene: Rely on Local Actors, Instead of Faulty Information, To Make Judgments about School Quality

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Yet in most states, the laws that govern charter schools and authorizers are weak or vague about school quality and accountability.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

A map of private and charter schools — schools that are ostensibly all about parental choice — reveals more than our beliefs about school quality; it also uncovers how deep our investments in segregation really are.

When I was a middle school student in Queens forty years ago at P.S. 172, my younger sisters and I were zoned to attend Van Buren, My parents happened to be well - informed about school quality because my Dad was a high school social studies teacher at John Bowne High School and my Mom was a social worker at Francis Lewis High School and Cardozo, all in Queens.

Families and communities should be able to access data about school quality, their student's performance relative to other students in the district and the state, and an understanding of the...

In Chicago, researchers had an unusual opportunity to study, over several years, how publicizing information about school quality influenced where families enrolled their children.

Isn't input about school quality what most parents would like to voice?

Instead, it proposes to reduce parent access to reliable and valid information and devolves most decisions about school quality to states, which historically have not taken action to address deficiencies in school systems.

When thinking about school quality, many people tend to gravitate to a single measure: results on standardized tests.

What the SPF does not answer, and does not intend to answer, are bigger questions about school quality that we all think about when we chose a school for our kids.

(I feel like a broken record harping on and on about school quality, but don't we all want more good schools for our students?!)

It should not be left up to A + or Colorado School Grades to help parents know about school quality; this should be a primary job for the state and districts.

One consequence of such limited and distorting data is an impoverished public conversation about school quality.

If you live in New York City, where the majority of schoolchildren are Black, Latino, and poor, then you care about school quality a great deal.

And in DC, even those who are concerned about school quality know they're not necessarily limited to the school they're zoned for.

School choice can help improve school quality only if families are well informed about school quality.

That Americans want students to be tested, however, does not mean that they are convinced that current testing provides accurate information about school quality.

The nationally representative sample discussed here represents a subset of a larger sample used to analyze a broader experiment about how individuals respond to information about school quality.

But choice works only if choice systems are equitable, schools are held accountable by the state or school district, and parents are given readily understandable information about school quality.

This means that we should instead accept the judgments of those with much more information about school quality, and it will be extremely rare that these more informed assessments of quality will be at odds with parental preferences.

Podcast: Mike Petrilli talks with Peg Tyre about her new book, which offers advice to parents concerned about school quality.

The critical question is whether inspectors visiting the school are able to gather and summarize information about school quality that is not already publicly available.

While the study suggests that public support for school reforms changes with added information about school quality, in most instances, teacher opinion is unaffected.

This doesn't mean that regulators should never close a school or should ignore test results (both of which are strawman arguments), but they should be significantly more humble about what they really know about school quality.