This piece originally appeared in Education Week. What makes a good public school—and how would we know it? While these questions may appear simple to answer—given all the publicly available data and…| FutureEd
This podcast episode originally appeared on the Education Gadfly Show. FutureEd Director Thomas Toch and Senior Fellow Lynn Olson joined the Education Gadfly Show podcast to discuss FutureEd’s report Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance and explore how to rethink school measurement by moving beyond traditional test-based metrics.| Untitled - FutureEd
What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance. Yet virtually every educational aim rests on the same foundation: giving students a strong academic grounding […]| Untitled - FutureEd
With student achievement declining and many states struggling to effectively support school improvement, it’s time to revisit a fundamental question: What makes a good school, and how should we measure it? FutureEd hosted this timely conversation about today’s school measurement and accountability systems and how policymakers can build research-based measurement models to drive school improvement. […]| Untitled - FutureEd
What makes a school great? The answer depends on your definition of a good school. Parents, educators, employers, and policymakers often bring different expectations, from preparing students for the workforce to developing informed citizens. Yet nearly all educational goals share the same foundation: equipping students with the academic skills and habits of mind to think […]| Untitled - FutureEd
This piece originally appeared in Education Next. Statewide standardized testing has played a central role in education policy for decades, as policymakers have sought to get a clearer picture of how schools are performing and to promote improvement. But support for state testing has been steadily eroding. If testing advocates hope to preserve state testing […]| Untitled - FutureEd