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My understanding is that schools are run for the convenience of administrators, who want metrics based performance to look at like butts in seats, test scores,
by 8note 4y ago
My understanding is that schools are run for the convenience of administrators, who want metrics based performance to look at like butts in seats, test scores, cost per student, etc
- pc86 4y agoI have no doubt administrators have a large role to play in this but "test scores" and "cost per student" seem like perfectly fine metrics by which to judge schools, no?
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoMetrics are meaningless without context, useful only for snap judgements by peanut galleries. Judging by metric is an pernicious antipattern that sounds good but the public and politicians rarely have the time for the contextualization necessary to make truly “data-driven decisions”. This is true outside of school management as well.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago"I literally don't have the time to cover the Indian Wars or Jim Crow south while still covering what I need to cover so my students can pass the state standardized test" -A teacher I was talking to last week Point is, test scores aren't perfect.
- brnt 4y agoWhat's the alternative?
- WalterBright 4y agoThe idea is to get rid of all standardized testing, so that there will be no contraindications to the story of public school excellence.