The Impacts of Testing Our Kids and Ranking Our Schools (Part 1)

<p>In the first of two parts looking at how we measure and communicate school quality, and how that impacts our educational system, we’re joined by <a href="https://www.uml.edu/education/faculty-staff/faculty/schneider-jack.aspx">Professor Jack Schneider.</a> He has been thinking about school ratings, and school quality for many years. He started the <a href="https://www.mciea.org">Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment</a>, a coalition of school and district leaders working to reimagine school assessment and accountability by including multiple measures of student engagement, student achievement, and school environment, and emphasizing <a href="https://www.mciea.org/performance-assessment.html">performance assessments</a> in the classroom to measure students' deeper mastery of content and skills.</p><p>We dig into what we are measuring, and, perhaps more importantly, what we aren’t. We also discuss the tension between a real need for transparent accountability, and the issues with the metrics we are currently using.</p><p><a href="http://patreon.com/integratedschools">Join our Patreon</a> to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.</p><p>LINKS:</p><p><a href="https://www.mciea.org/">The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment</a></p><p>Professor Schneider’s 2017 book - <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780674976399?aff=IntegratedSchools">Beyond Test Scores</a></p><p>Professor Schneider’ podcast - <a href="https://haveyouheardblog.com/have-you-heard/">Have You Heard</a></p><p>Pre-order Professor Schneider’s new book - <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781620974940?aff=IntegratedSchools">A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door</a></p><p>A <a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/no-child-left-behind-overview-definition-summary.html">primer</a> on No Child Left Behind (NCLB)</p><p>Professor <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education/about/faculty/wayneau">Wayne Au</a> on the <a href="https://www.re