Sharing via the Indiana Department of Education. A MUST-READ: A key problem is that unlike a student, whose achievement and improvement can be measured using standardized tests, for many Hoosiers a school is much more than the sum of its students test results and all that it does cant be boiled down to a single letter. In addition to classroom instruction, Indiana schools feed hundreds of thousands of children up to two meals a day, provide recreation, serve as a refuge from dangerous homes and streets and embody the hopes of the communities that paid to build them. None of those items is reflected in the current school grading system, nor are they included in the model proposed last week by the committee tasked with creating a better one.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:24:25 +0000