Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong

[plantgirl]

The author of this piece, Kristina Rizga, was embedded with Mission High School, in San Francisco, CA, for 18 months. She shows the problems behind standardized testing, and how test scores don't tell you what a school is really like. If you are a parent, a teacher, or even just a concerned citizen who wonders what the heck is happening with our

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[pasquin]

Sorry, I don't buy into the premise of this article.

1) I didn't get past page one because of the meandering.
2) it uses all the dodges: how can a school be failing if every one likes it and goes to college? Easy. I like cotton candy, but it won't make me healthy. And community college will take anyone.

I'm sure the teachers are well meaning, but public education gets an F.

[anthologie]

Kristina (the reporter) and a handful of public-school teachers will be on KQED's Forum tomorrow morning at 10 to discuss the article. I'm sure they will get into much greater depth and will also take calls.

[anthologie]

As someone who has covered public education in the Bay Area extensively since 2000, and in San Francisco (off and on) since 2008, I have followed Kristina's work both with intense envy and huge admiration. It's not perfect, but it's showing another side of the story, and that's important.