I mentioned earlier this week an article from the Washington Post, where Jay Mathews asks some pointed questions of the LA Times reporters who will publish LA Unified’s value-added scores. Those reporters responded in one of Mathews’s latest posts. There answers repeats the praises of value-added testing, which have some truth, but they still fail [...]
I have mentioned the two top “high school ranking” lists before, Newsweek (“The Challenge Index”) and US News and World Report plus two posts ago I posted my own list. Today, I would like to look at what each lists looks like compared to the other for the top high schools in Tennessee. All three [...]
Do you ever wonder if your news reports on a school’s test scores give you enough information to be useful? Jay Mathews at Class Struggle does an amazing job looking at the recent uproar of the LA Times planned publishing of school test score data with teacher’s names attached. He echoes some problems that I [...]
Jay Mathews has finished his yearly high school rankings in Newsweek, the Challenge Index. Every year Jay surveys high schools across the nation and ranks them by the number of AP/IB Exams taken dividing the number of exams taken by the number of students in the graduating class. Several Tennesee high schools made the list. [...]
Jay Mathews is taking on merit scholarships over at WaPo in his online column. I usually like Jay but he openly questions the recent increase in merit scholarships in his latest piece: Merit aid seems to be motivated, at least in part, by a lust for higher ratings in U.S. News and World Report. Is [...]
