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 Posted: Sat 13:40, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: issues that purport |
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Why High-School Rankings Are Meaningless—and Harmful How much value can there be in an index that rates thousands of schools? When it reinforces the worst tendencies in our education system, not much. John Tierney May 28 2013, 11:05 AM ET Tweet More Email Print Jim Young/ReutersOver the past month or so, in newspapers and local-news websites all around the country, public high schools and school districts have been trumpeting reports about how they've done on various national rankings of high schools. For instance, here's Bill Runey, principal of Attleboro High School in Massachusetts. "We're really proud of this," he said in a press release put out by the school district. He was referring to the fact that Attleboro had been ranked 1,947th in the nation on the Washington Post's annual ranking of "America's Most Challenging High Schools."On a local level, school rankings long have been the sort of thing city magazines thrive on,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], along with their "best of" issues that purport
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