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How can President Obama, Diane Ravitch, and Paul Tough all be right on education?
- 07-11-2011
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Blog Bill Tucker/Huffington Post
Poor Bruce Randolph School. First, President Obama praises the school in his 2011 State of the Union address. Then Diane Ravitch, in a New York Times op-ed, cited the school as an example of "statistical legerdemain." And now, Paul Tough, in a New York Times magazine piece, uses Randolph as an example of excuse-making and says students "deserve better." Who's right? Each has a slice of the truth. This display from the Colorado Department of Education, included in Kevin Carey and Rob Manwaring's excellent report on growth models, helps to illustrate the dilemma: Looking at the y-axis, very few Bruce Randolph students scored as proficient on state tests. Yet, at the same time, 65 percent of students at Bruce Randolph had growth, or year-to-year gains in scores, above the median for similar students. (more...)
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