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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And test scores do not tell the whole story about schools. I wish people would stop pretending they do. It's so annoying to pick up one of those magazines named after a city, look at the article that says something like, "We rank all the high schools! Is yours in the top five?" And then look at the methodology they used only to find that it's just a ranking of test scores. Nothing more. [/quote]
I am all ears to learn about a better metric than test scores.[/quote]

You know what, lady? Seriously just send your kid to Whitman and be happy and stop antagonizing all the people you don't believe could possibly be happy with their schools. May your children be kinder (but with such high test scores, of course).[/quote]
I am not a lady and I am in the Richard Montgomery cluster. [b]Now that we cleared that up, what metric is better than test scores[/b]?[/quote]
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Academic achievements. 
Able to educate a diverse student body. [/quote]

I genuinely think the best metric of a school's quality is how they do with the most disadvantaged kids. Coincidentally, it seems that sites like GreatSchools are starting to agree, and to look not just at average test scores, but how a school does with kids who are probably not getting extensive tutoring outside of school. [/quote]

Yes, how well you educate an ethnically, and economically diverse student body. I'm not saying there is a magic metric you can find for this, but there are indicators such as how much a student improves. Great Schools does seem to have evolved beyond test scores, which is good. Schools are a lot more complex than just straight test scores. They also look at diversity as a plus. For some intangibles though, I'm not sure how a large site like Great Schools can get a true picture of a school. At a certain point, you have to have faith. We need to visit schools and talk to the teachers and get involved. Not everything can be measured with numbers.

And, as has been reiterated many times in this thread. A child can thrive and do very well in many environments, and the idea that a kid who goes to Blair is automatically getting a lesser education or will be less prepared to take their place in society than a kid who went to Whitman just doesn't hold water. [/quote]

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