NYC Public School Parents: Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat "F" - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 28 Sep 11Unfortunately the mainstream media continue to repeat without dispute Suransky's claim that the progress reports were much more "stable" this year, even though 60% of schools changed grades. Not one reporter, to my knowledge anyway, has bothered to point out how experts have shown that 32-80% of the annual gains or losses in scores at the school level are essentially random - and yet 60% of the school grade is based upon these annual gains or losses.