What’s the Best Way to Measure a School’s Quality? 5 Factors to Consider

What’s the Best Way to Measure a School’s Quality? 5 Factors to Consider

What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance. Yet virtually every educational aim rests on the same foundation: giving students a strong academic grounding and developing the knowledge and habits of mind that allow them to think critically, communicate eff…