Standard & Poor's Launches Schools Site
Online Collection Rates U.S. Schools by Test Scores, Spending
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 29, 2005; 4:32 PM
A group of education and business leaders today launched a large and unusually detailed Web site showing how schools and school districts compare to each other in student performance and other factors in all 50 states and the District.
A statement by the SchoolMatters.com Web site called it "the largest easily searchable collection of education performance data ever assembled." Washington area parents and educators who watch schools closely said their initial impression was that the site would provide a great deal of authoritative data for people trying to identify which schools and districts are not doing a good job and which ones are succeeding....
***
The site not only shows how schools' and districts' test scores compare to their neighbors, but it gives results for particular minority groups and illustrates the different ways that districts spend tax dollars. One part of the Web site allows residents concerned about how money is spent to see what portion of new revenue coming into each district is spent on instruction, and what portion is not....
***
The Web site is run by the Education Data Partnership, a collaboration that includes the Council of Chief State School Officers, Standard & Poor's, the non-profit group Achieve Inc. and the CELT Corp. The partnership is supported by $45 million from The Broad Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10050-2005Mar29.html 
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
