Education Law

Five is Enough???

Earlier this week U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings unveiled the department?s Leading Education Indicators: Trends in Education. The indicators include Achievement, Achievement Gaps, High School Graduation Rates, College Readiness, and College Completion and are meant to provide a more accurate picture of how our nation?s schools are actually performing.

Well, BoardBuzz thinks Secretary Spellings must have come across the Center for Public Education?s Good Measures for Good Schools! Released earlier this year, Good Measures for Good Schools consists of these five indicators, as well as 25 others in six categories to provide parents, educators, policymakers, and the general public a more well-rounded view of our nation?s schools. However, not only does Good Measures for Good Schools provide national data for each of the indicators, it also provides a quick summary of how each indicator should—and should not—be used to evaluate our public schools. BoardBuzz knows all too well how some education indicators are misused.

So if you want to learn about how these 28 indicators can be used to evaluate your local schools, that link again is here.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).