Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Test Scores in NYC All Hype?
City Journal’s Sol Stern takes another skeptical look at test scores in the New York City public schools. Worth a read, particularly his points about the role of “spin” in reporting student achievement to the public (something all of us, regardless of your position on the education political spectrum, need to be cognizant of.) Writes Stern: “Eventually the public will wake up and realize that it’s been getting Soviet-style statistics about a brighter future when the factories still can’t produce shoes.”
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