Why Greatschools ratings are broken

Greatschools scores are broken and here's why. While good-intentioned it actually punishes diverse schools. If a school is extremely diverse (I would argue a good thing) but any racial groups score lower or higher than others, greatschools gives it a LOWER overall score even if the school has good average test scores by students. So an all white school on the east coast with average test scores might be rated 9 or 10 while a very good california school with higher average test scores might be rated 6 because it has a lot of diversity but the test scores vary by racial group. Now if you think this is stupid and ridiculous I would agree. Greatschools inadvertently promotes white supremacy and weirdly punishes schools which have a lot of diversity !!!! They made a wrong, bad, (stupid) assumption that different test scores by race means the school did something bad/nefarious, when it may not have anything at all to do with the school treating students differently....

Submitted March 13, 2021 at 11:15PM by BayMind https://ift.tt/3eCZZ3c