Great Schools new “grades”

[Anonymous]

It looks like they revamped their methodology again and many schools have lower scores. It seems like they are focusing on improvements across groups from previous years? But if certain groups were already high achieving, they get dinged for not improving? Like who works for these people?

[Anonymous]

Tjs new ranking is an 8/10. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Great Schools has been useless for years. It measures metrics that are completely based on dividing schools up by race, income, and other arbitrary markers - similar to the disastrous No Child Left Behind and completely based on test scores. It then grades schools with a number calculated by the difference between the performance of different groups. So for example, a school with a completely homogeneous population where every kid does poorly will score better because there are no differences, while a school with a very diverse population where all the groups score slightly differently - but still pretty well - will score lower because there are more differences.

I haven't tried to calculate the new system they are using, but it seems like now they are basing more on improvement - which is also similar to some stupid federal programs from around NCLB time - and looking only at how groups improved from last year. That usually means that a group of kids can all pass with, say, 90%, and then the school will get a low score if they don't raise that to 91% the next year. And if they get 100%, then they will be downgraded if they can't get more than 100% the following year. Anyway, that's how the federal scores worked for a while, and the whole thing is just nonsensical, which is why Great Schools is useless.

[Anonymous]

Our MS and HS went from 2/10 to 4/10.

[Anonymous]

Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MS and HS went from 2/10 to 4/10.

Ours went from 2 to 5. It's downright respectable now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

When new families move to the area, they will look more broadly at schools rather than focusing on a small number.

That's good for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

Umm yes, that's going to make affluent families think that lower performing schools are better, or at least make figuring out which schools are home to the high performing whites and Asians harder for families seeking that out which may help reduce segregation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tjs new ranking is an 8/10. What a joke.

This make sense with the racial quota based admission

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tjs new ranking is an 8/10. What a joke.

This make sense with the racial quota based admission

That didn’t take long. It has nothing to do with admissions policy, it changed bc the methodology changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

Umm yes, that's going to make affluent families think that lower performing schools are better, or at least make figuring out which schools are home to the high performing whites and Asians harder for families seeking that out which may help reduce segregation

I think you are overestimating people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

Umm yes, that's going to make affluent families think that lower performing schools are better, or at least make figuring out which schools are home to the high performing whites and Asians harder for families seeking that out which may help reduce segregation

I think you are overestimating people.

DP. I think a lot of people look at Greatschools very closely when buying a house. Diluting its impact is a good thing.