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Rating California schools: Not by tests alone
- 09-26-2011
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Column by Peter Schrag/California Progress Report
It probably could have been predicted a decade ago: The way the American political system judges schools – indeed the whole center of gravity of educational accountability – is shifting again: From a rigid reliance on test-based numbers, which was the fashion of the big state and federal education laws of the George W. Bush era, the pendulum is slowly swinging back toward breadth, flexibility and moderation. In California, the most recent example, and the most encouraging, is Senate President pro-tem Darrell Steinberg’s SB 547. The bill would replace API, the 12-year-old Academic Performance Index, which, in rating each school and district, narrowly focused on standardized tests in reading and math, with a much broader set of standards. (more...)
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