Great Schools new “grades”
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Anonymous
| Great schools is awful in every way |
Anonymous
| My kids' school also went from a 9 to 6, they're a 9 for test scores. There's nowhere to go, of course they haven't made any progress!! What on earth? |
Anonymous
| Many of us knew all along that GS scores are meaningless. For low-performing schools it unfairly paints a horrible picture of the teachers who work miracles in Title I environments. But those with 8+ were happily along for the ride as long as GS scores were favorable. I'm glad the flawed methodology is getting exposed. |
Anonymous
Why fret? They’re meaningless. |
Anonymous
NP, but I'm at a 4 in the Marshall pyramid (yes, Shrevewood, of course) and the school has been great for my kid. Shrevewood is the perfect example of a school that has the top-line rating killed by the equity score. Test scores for Whites and Asians are 9/10, but are 1/10 for Hispanics because most of the Hispanics are English learners. So, an equity score of 1. |
Anonymous
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The current message of GS is “please don’t have many poor Black or Hispanic kids, but if you do make double-sure your White and Asian kids are kind of average and don’t score too high or we’ll ding you for the gap.”
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Anonymous
| What’s craziest is that there was always a simple fix to the issue of how to capture how a school is doing with their disadvantaged learners: simply measure if they do better or worse than the STATE AVG for that particular subset vs dinging a given school for 1) having those kids in its school at all and 2) for the school having gaps in how well those kids did vs non-disadvantaged groups even if the disadvantaged ones did better than typically in the state. |
Anonymous
Woodson |
Anonymous
| The higher ranked schools have the biggest asssholes, so relax. |
Anonymous
That should be the slogan. I can’t believe they get away with their BS. |
Anonymous
You nailed it! |
Anonymous
+1 I'm convinced that Robinson's score is at least partly due to how badly some of the pyramid elementary schools teach the curriculum, so there's a LOT of room for growth once kids get to MS and HS. Ironically if the elementary schools here were doing a better job at preparing kids for secondary school, RBSS's score would go down due to the growth factor, which just goes to show that the rating is useless. We love Robinson but personally I think the last thing the community needs is an influx of competitive families who are choosing it because they're chasing high GS scores. |
Anonymous
RSS, sorry- need more coffee |
Anonymous
I agree it should be lower. |
Anonymous
The top tier sounds pretty accurate. The next tier seems off, like they should also be at the top tier. |