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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If we did away with standardized testing and national standards, I'm curious how websites like greatschools would rank ES. What would they base it on? If every district/state had their own standards, you really couldn't use any kind of test scores to rank since it would be comparing apples to oranges.

And if this should happen, what would DCUM parents use to find the so-called great schools?[/quote]

Easy.  Socio-economic status of the neighborhoods feeding into the schools would pretty much tell you a lot.  Beyond that, there are ACT and SAT scores and NAEP scores from the middle and high schools that the elementary schools feed into.  There are also extracurricular activities that pretty much tell you who is at the school.  Heck, you can tell from just going to the Little League Park or the local YMCA or church. People talk and teachers and principals are known.  Before the internet you had these things called communities where people actually hung out and talked to each other. This had nothing to do with standardized tests because we didn't have those in spades (maybe one every couple of years and no public data).  When I was a kid (1962) my parents moved from one area to another to get into good schools.  There were no secrets involved.  It was widely known as one of the better districts in the area.  We knew which ones were not so good too.  The DCUM people would find other ways to define schools (and those ways might be a lot better anyway). [/quote]

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