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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: ric sees the light
In a message dated 9/12/2003 1:19:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gbracey@erols.com writes: > Epiphany of the Week: > > I think what we're starting to do is find that schools and teaching are a > lot more complicated than we had thought in the past--at least from a policy > standpoint." > > Eric Hanushek quoted by Debbie Viadero in Ed Week. > No, no. The epiphany is from the Virginia department of ed which said that the public should not make assumptions about our schools solely based on test pass rates. Of course, we know he meant we shouldn't make assumptions based on disaggregated pass rates. Making decisions on the pass rates of the group as a whole continues to be just fine. Mickey
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