Thursday, June 14, 2012

Of API, school rankings, and minor annoyances

Everyone has complaints about test scores, so I'm going to jump on the bandwagon.

The state released school ranks today -- Thursday (my head is spinning from all those numbers)

They also release the number on the academic performance index -- the blessed API -- schools must reach in order to be considered to be making progress.

I know this is a number the schools can calculate themselves, so why bother? Plus, the test results are going to be announced in a few weeks -- nobody is getting any time to know what to reach for. The students already took the tests in April.

Why bother?

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