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GreatSchools to omit pandemic school testing data from its ratings | LA School Report
Parents and educators are asking: when is GreatSchools going to have new school data? The answer is two-fold. First, it’s important to know we are not going to give parents information that doesn’t help them, or only helps some of them. Second, we have been consistently adding new data, but its type and source may surprise you.
Analysis: NEA Representative Assembly Sets Out to Solve the World’s Problems While Neglecting Its Own
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears most Wednesdays; see the full archive. The National Education Association Representative Assembly opened in Chicago on July 3 with 5,071 delegates on hand — 3,858 in person and 1,213 online.
Exclusive: GreatSchools to Omit Pandemic School Testing Data From Its Ratings
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Parents and educators are asking: when is GreatSchools going to have new school data? The answer is two-fold. First, it’s important to know we are not going to give parents information that doesn’t help them, or only helps some of them. Second, we have been consistently adding new data, but its type and source may surprise you.
OPINION: To counter educator bias, we need more Black teachers in our classrooms
As high school teachers, we often saw Black teenagers — mostly boys — who were simply bored with their lessons deemed incapable of high academic achievement, shunted off to remedial classes or special education and encouraged to be happy with merely making it to graduation. We didn’t have magical powers, but we could clearly see the wasted potential of these young men and wondered why others could not.
The Children Left Behind By 1 Million U.S. COVID Deaths
Nearly 250,000 youth have lost a parent or caregiver to the virus. But some parents say schools aren’t adequately reckoning with the fallout Updated, May 12 Just 10 years old at the time, it was as if Eva Torres’s world fell in when COVID claimed the life of her grandmother in April 2020. Abuela, as the girl called her, had lived just a block from the Bronx apartment she shared with her parents and two older brothers.
Why we changed our ratings
In fall 2020, we made some big updates to our school ratings. We improved our Equity Rating, a number designed to show how well a school serves all its students. First we added growth data, which measures how much a child learns during the school year, no matter where they started. We also added college readiness data, including things like graduation rates and how students performed on college entrance exams. Finally, we changed how we calculate our Summary Rating.
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