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Exclusive: GreatSchools to Omit Pandemic School Testing Data From Its Ratings
The 74 via Yahoo News· 2 years agoParents and educators are asking: when is GreatSchools going to have new school data? The answer is...
How are GreatSchools ratings calculated?
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 4—GreatSchools' high school rankings are calculated based on three or four education metrics: test scores, academic growth, equity and college readiness. Schools receive scores in each ...
'The system is really flawed': Lewiston and Auburn officials push back on poor school ratings
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 4—When Brian Stickney and his wife, Tricia, started searching for a house in 2020, they hadn't seriously thought about moving to Durham until they saw the elementary school's rating: a ...
GreatSchools says it is working to improve its ratings
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 4—Some studies indicate that school ratings like those by GreatSchools may increase economic, social and racial divides between communities. A 2019 study from researchers at Duke University ...
How Black Families Can Fight for Fair Discipline in School
The 74 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis essay originally appeared at GreatSchools.org Each school year, about 3 million students get...
Opinion: Starting Earlier Will Create Better Student Pipelines into STEM Fields
The 74 via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA student in an elementary school drops an egg wrapped tightly in paper straws and tape to test...
Cashion is becoming Oklahoma City's next exurb, straining the main attraction: the schools
The Oklahoman via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoCASHION — Is Cashion, population 877 (officially, for now), Oklahoma City's latest exurb? It looks...
13-year-old stabbed teacher with pencil, then smacked her in head, Florida cops say
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA disgruntled student used a pencil to stab his teacher at a Florida middle school, then smacked her...
Argument between teachers at Florida high school ends with one in jail, deputies say
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Florida high school teacher ended up in jail after an argument with a fellow teacher turned...
Seventh grader killed by passing train, leaving Florida cops with a mystery to solve
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Florida middle school student stepped directly into the path of an oncoming passenger train just...