Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality

by Jack Schneider

When it comes to sizing up America's public schools, test scores are the go-to metric of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the "best" schools. Yet ample research indicates that standardized tests are a poor way to measure a school's performance. It is time--indeed past time--to rethink this system, Jack Schneider says.

Beyond Test Scores reframes current debates over school quality by offering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976398
• ISBN13: 9780674976399
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"