Grading Atlanta

Grading Atlanta : Changes to Tumblr have led to the graphs that I sometimes embed in posts not showing up.  I’ll be migrating the content of this blog to gradingatlanta.blogspot.com which I...

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Poor schools, rich schools: Never the twain shall meet in Atlanta? | Get Schooled : I recently shared some thoughts with Maureen Downey at the AJC for an article she wrote on school consolidati...

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It can sometimes be tough to keep an eye on how a school or district is doing in Georgia over time. The data that gets reported changes frequently.  CRCT exams get swapped for Georgia Milestones...

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Depending on which ad you’ve seen, Governor Deal’s Opportunity School District (“OSD”) is either a white knight coming to save public education or a headless horseman coming to pillage th...

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Two weeks ago, the state released results for the 2016 Georgia Milestones Assessments.  Below is an interactive graph showing how the state’s schools performed relative to what one would expe...

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Few school chiefs have saved struggling urban systems. Will Atlanta leader be among the first? | Get Schooled : Here’s why I think Superintendent Carstarphen may succeed in turning around Atl...

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Opinion: Don’t trust school reform to Legislature that dabbles once every 30 years | Get Schooled

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Opinion: School choice only works when paired with accountability | Get Schooled

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Atlanta Budget Explorer - ABE 2.0 : The Atlanta Budget Explorer is now live on the city of Atlanta’s website.  I was part of a team (along with John Keltz, Khia Jackson, Robert Crocker, & Qu...

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Discussion of Class Size in APS : > In a special meeting tonight, the Atlanta Board of Education > reversed an earlier vote this week rejecting an administration > request ...

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She’s ahead.  She’s behind.  She’s ahead.  Reports on polling for the Georgia Senate race in recent weeks have been more volatile than their underlying survey responses would suggest.�...

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With one week left before the midterm elections, approximately 522,000 Georgians have already voted.  This represents about 10% of registered voters and about 20% of the total turnout in 2010. ...

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After graduating from college in 1991, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin began teaching fifth graders in the Houston public schools.  Three years later, they decided to strike out on their own and fo...

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The Results Are Real : Co-written NY Daily News Op-Ed on Success Academy 2014 Results

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Young couples in the Atlanta area once bought homes in Cobb County to join what was perceived to be one of the state’s strongest school systems.  Twenty years ago, elementary schools spannin...

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Former Vice President Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, making the case that the Earth had experienced climate change resulting from rising carbon dioxide emissions.  Eight years...

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We demonstrated in part one that Success Academy has very high achievement relative to the economic needs of the network’s students.  However, Success Academy skeptics believe their high score...

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The first two parts of our analysis show that Success Academy students have very high achievement, and that most of this feat is not caused by the selection of their students, but by the effectiv...

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Can everyone win in the APS/Beltline dispute? : Co-written Op Ed for Creative Loafing.

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On a fanfare-filled day in late March, the newly elected Atlanta Board of Education announced that Austin Superintendent Meria Carstarphen had been selected to take the helm of the city’s schoo...

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