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[quote=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.[/quote]

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