A blog for the informed discussion of California's education policy challenges.
Polling on public education almost invariably reports the same pattern of responses when participants are asked to evaluate schools. Respondents give their local schools relatively high grades, but they give much lower grades to the public school system as a whole. In other words, citizens trust the schools they know, where they send (or sent) their own children, but they are doubtful about schools elsewhere....
Polling on public education almost invariably reports the same pattern of responses when participants are asked to evaluate schools. Respondents give their local schools relatively high grades, but they give much lower grades to the public school system as a whole. In other words, citizens trust the schools they know, where they send (or sent) their own children, but they are doubtful about schools elsewhere....
Let’s get assessment policy right. California has recently adopted new standards for what children should know and be able to do at every grade level. To ensure that these new standards support improvement in the performance of schools and students, tie them to assessments that provide timely, accurate, and useful information for teachers and parents about whether and how students are progressing toward...
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