High School Progress Reports Weigh In -- At 305 Excel Columns!

Maisie McAdoo:

High School Progress Reports, which the Department of Education released on Nov. 26, have yet another new way to measure schools: the college and career readiness index, which now counts for 10 percent of a school's grade.

As if the 2011 reports, at 205 columns of Excel data per school was not enough, the 2012 reports arrived on a 305-column spreadsheet, boasting 39 new columns of college and career readiness data points. That doesn't count the "additional information," 72 columns of supplemental data, in case the first 39 didn't quite get at everything you wanted to know about college readiness.

Give them points for trying. But some of this data is going to wind up in "deleted items" and never get crunched.

Even the DOE didn't try. It didn't put out PowerPoint slides or anything that summarizes (or spins) the information.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 5, 2012 1:11 AM
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