Sunday, September 21, 2008

Spellings Creates Education Index

This from Education Week:

The latest unemployment rates, inflation rates, and other economic indicators are staples of TV and radio newscasts.

If Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has her way, newscasters will be giving annual updates on leading education indicators.

Ms. Spellings has created a composite index of five important data points of student performance: overall achievement; the size of the gap in achievement between minority and white students; the high school dropout rate; the college-readiness rate; and the college-completion rate...

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