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Grading the schools

Arkansas public school report cards are going out. They include a new measure intended to show how each public school does in advancing students' knowledge from one year to the next.

Complicated.

Here's a news release to explain it.

And here is a spreadsheet of statewide results, by school, on the new index.

Posted by Max Brantley on March 31, 2009 01:14 PM | Permalink

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Not seeing LRSD high schools on the spreadsheet.

Did, however, notice David O'Dodd Elementary. Was the boy martyr of the Confederacy secretly a member of the IRA?

Posted by: 24fps | March 31, 2009 01:28 PM

Guess those folks don't know that a PDF is.

Posted by: Jeff | March 31, 2009 02:52 PM

As far as I could tell, there were no high schools whatsoever on this report. Will they come out separately or what?

Posted by: Jake da Snake | March 31, 2009 03:06 PM

Ooops, there are some HS's but many are not listed. What's the scoop, Droop?

Posted by: Jake da Snake | March 31, 2009 03:09 PM

How sad that for the LR SD the only school with a 5 excellence score is Woodruff Elementary which will be closed next year as an elementary school and reincarnated as a pre-K. I know Woodruff is small and not economical, but it is still a shame.

Posted by: Little Rock Nell | March 31, 2009 06:40 PM

A friend in the know sent this message to me:

"High schools are not on the gains list because the tests students take at high school level are end-of-course (one point in time) so gains cannot be calculated. The new piece on the report cards for high schools is the grade inflation index. "

Posted by: Jake da Snake | March 31, 2009 09:48 PM

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