What Makes a Great School? and what parents rely on

The author, Jack Schneider, is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross and the director of research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment, surmises that there isn't a lot of information to help parents evaluate schools, except for test scores.

He suggests that "so much might be accomplished if we had a shared understanding of what we want our schools to do, clear and common language for articulating our aims, and more honest metrics for tracking our progress."

To read the article go to: "What Makes a Great School?"