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This was in the Wall strteet journal this am.
It was an article on "Is your school up to speed"
It listed a website
THis site gives data on each scool and compares it to the state and the nation.
It also points out that the weakness in this site is that it depends on the state for the info and that the states are slow to report the info out.
Kinda interesting to look at.
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I can't afind my school district on that website.
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Play around with it- are you sure you clicked on district?
There are lots of school districts when I checked for CT- not sure which one you are looking for- it does not do private schools.
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Thanks for the link!
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One of the reasons we moved was for better public schools. My children currently attend a private school due to the poor public schools in our old neighborhood (with 50's, 60's and 70's % in reading and math prof according to that site - which doesn't shock me).
The public school our kids will attend in the fall is in the 90's prof across the board for reading and math...which I'm gald to see but we did our reasearch before we bought a house, looked at the different school districts, visited schools, checked test scores etc
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Originally Posted by Oregano
One of the reasons we moved was for better public schools.
The public school our kids will attend in the fall is in the 90's prof across the board for reading and math...which I'm gald to see but we did our reasearch before we bought a house, looked at the different school districts, visited schools, checked test scores etc
This is like us too. When my dd got ready to start school, we very sadly moved from a neighborhood we loved just because of the poor school performance. But the school we attend now has excellent test scores, graduation rates, etc. We've been very happy with the education my children are getting.
Thanks for the link. I did find our school and school system on there.
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I wish they gave you a little more info than test scores. While that does provide some information, I think school ratings should be based on alot more than that.
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OMG! That's sad. Our state (MN) and especially our district are quite a bit above the national average and I think they are doing bad. I can't image how poorly other schools are going.
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Originally Posted by Happymom
I wish they gave you a little more info than test scores. While that does provide some information, I think school ratings should be based on alot more than that.
Thank you! It's nice to hear that. So often we get caught up in test scores, that we forget other things that can show a child's learning. The school that I teach at received a D last year, which looks awful on paper. The percent of kids that passed the FCAT (Florida's standardized test) was not great. However, what doesn't get published is the fact that at least in our county, our school had one of the highest levels of improvement in our students. We may have many low level kids, but what isn't shown is how most of these kids, even though they are still considered below grade level, made good improvements from the year before. It is really hard to judge a school, or a child for that matter, on a single standardized test score. Kids learn in such different ways, and have so many different talents and strengthens, that it is unfair, in my opinion, to classify them and the school they are in by a single set of scores.
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Thanks for sharing this info. I was happy to see our school district scored high although we still intend to homeschool. One of my biggest beefs is that the schools "teach to the test" so kids are being gypped of a well-rounded education. So the scores just mean to me that these kids are really good at taking and passing the tests - but do they like/love learning and are they learning everything they could/should be? JMHO....