{"id":2798,"date":"2008-08-01T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/01\/failing-schools-better-than-no\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:20:46","slug":"failing-schools-better-than-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/01\/failing-schools-better-than-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Schools: Better Than Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, my opinion of “No Child Left Behind” style attempts to measure “failing” schools is as low as anybody’s, but even I think this new Ohio State study sounds ridiculous<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Up to three-quarters of U.S. schools deemed failing based on achievement test scores would receive passing grades if evaluated using a less biased measure, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n

Ohio State University researchers developed a new method of measuring school quality based on schools’ actual impact on learning – how much faster students learned during the academic year than during summer vacation when they weren’t in class.<\/p>\n

Using this impact measure, about three-quarters of the schools now rated as “failing” because of low test scores no longer would be considered substandard.<\/p>\n

That means that in these schools mislabeled as failing, students may have low achievement scores, but they are learning at a reasonable rate and they are learning substantially faster during the school year than they are during summer vacation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other news, people who bought lottery tickets were substantially more likely to win the lottery.<\/p>\n

I mean, seriously, this is a proposed standard? We’re supposed to think that schools are doing an adequate job if students learn more than when they’re on vacation?<\/p>\n

I’ll happily agree that schools where students improve their skills more<\/strong> in the summer should be razed to the ground, and the ground sown with salt, but don’t you think we ought to demand a teensy<\/i> bit more from our schools than that they be better than no school at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, my opinion of “No Child Left Behind” style attempts to measure “failing” schools is as low as anybody’s, but even I think this new Ohio State study sounds ridiculous: Up to three-quarters of U.S. schools deemed failing based on achievement test scores would receive passing grades if evaluated using a less biased measure,… Continue reading Failing Schools: Better Than Nothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,28,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-politics","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}