How online ratings make good schools look bad (Racial And Affluence Disparity In GreatSchools.org)

Hi all,

The video linked below is on the topic of how one of the most used online scoring websites for looking up a neighborhood school's "rating" has a massive number of flaws and directly underserves less affluent and more diverse neighborhoods that might have great schools with just as good if not better teaching outcomes, but which aren't represented as such in the ratings used.

I thought it was a rather prevalent topic to discuss, since online scoring is becoming ever more common when people are choosing neighborhoods to move to.

Video Description: "When parents are researching where to move, they typically look at the quality of a neighborhood's schools. But good data on that is hard to find. That's where a website called GreatSchools has thrived. GreatSchools rates almost every public school in America on a scale of 1 to 10. But when we analyzed those ratings, we found that they almost never give high scores to schools in poor neighborhoods — even though data from their own website shows that many of those schools do a good job teaching students."

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3ZPgg0nds

Submitted December 08, 2019 at 02:35PM by Silverseren https://ift.tt/2Lvqxnx