Why are private schools not transparent with their test scores?

[Anonymous]

The last ten posts appear to be from the same person.

[Anonymous]

I know. In the name of transparency are you that person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

...Some private schools are willing to take on more learning difference than other schools - SAT scores probably suffer. Some of those learning differences may not test well but I would not say that the value of their education is less.

Aha, the embedded rationale for why D.C. private educational institutions shudder to release their scores!

Actually the schools I am thinking of does post their scores - they are lower than Blair magnet - but imagine that people still want to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, in assessing a private educational institution I am more interested in the test scores of the studentry -- not the sports or athletic scores. You may keep the latter scores private.

Yet I am more interesed in a school that has 1 national merit scholar and a bunch of kids that get signed by colleges to play sports than a school that has a bunch of national merit scholars and little else.

Imagine that!

[Anonymous]

The good thng is you'll find lots of private schools in our area that fit this bill. You're in luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know. In the name of transparency are you that person?

And you are six minutes from the post before you that you're agreeing with - are you the same poster? And in the name of transparency, which private school administration do you work for?

This is just silly.

I'm not any of the previous six posts, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The good thng is you'll find lots of private schools in our area that fit this bill. You're in luck.

Lucky me!

[Anonymous]

Sure...whatever you say or claim.

[Anonymous]

And you are six minutes from the post before you that you're agreeing with - are you the same poster? And in the name of transparency, which private school administration do you work for?

This is just silly.

I'm not any of the previous six posts, FWIW.

If you say so FWIW

[Anonymous]

Would you appreciate it if more schools posted information like this?

http://www.berwickacademy.org/ftpimages/226/download/college%20profile%202010.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anything information is preferable to the detailed transparency underlying sport performance scores from every boy and/or girl team in D.C. area private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is my point... how do you/we know that the "top" schools are really that great if objective measures are not open for review....

How about this?
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?ke...p1SUIxS2c&hl=en_US&pli=1#gid=5

Now, D.C. private school defensive and insecure hooters... Was transparency so bad afterall? The world is still here! Transparency is good for schools and democracy.

I created the spreadsheet, and I posted the link. Plenty of information is publicly available if you just are willing to do some work to find it. If you want transparency, but are too lazy to dig for the info, I have no sympathy for you.

As someone who works hard to gather information on these schools, and to make it available to others, I don't think schools have any obligation to be "transparent" or to disclose info to looky-loos like us. They're private schools, and people pay a lot of money to send children there, so they don't owe the rest of us anything. If you have a child at one of these schools, you should know whether your child is learning or not. If you really can't evaluate your own child's progress without looking at test scores from other schools where your child does not attend, you're doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

I bet it would take 20 times longer for you to find the sports scores of the D.C. private school teams than the information you have provided about academic performance?

Don't glorify yourself; any uneducated fool or nitwit can readily find the information you have provided in a few seconds since all area schools are forthcoming with this information.

What's your point?

[Anonymous]

I created the spreadsheet, and I posted the link. Plenty of information is publicly available if you just are willing to do some work to find it. If you want transparency, but are too lazy to dig for the info, I have no sympathy for you.

As someone who works hard to gather information on these schools, and to make it available to others

, I don't think schools have any obligation to be "transparent" or to disclose info to looky-loos like us. They're private schools, and people pay a lot of money to send children there, so they don't owe the rest of us anything. If you have a child at one of these schools, you should know whether your child is learning or not. If you really can't evaluate your own child's progress without looking at test scores from other schools where your child does not attend, you're doing something wrong.

Get real

[Anonymous]

I just looked and looked and looked at the Duke Ellington School's web site and I can't find SAT scores anywhere.

All they have are pictures of kids playing instruments, singing and dancing.

How in the world do we know these kids are getting an education?

The Arts drop down is longer than the Academics.

Appalling!