HOW DOES YOUR SCHOOL RATE?  (from "Toronto Star")

Mar 01, 2007 04:30 AM

Louise Brown
Education Reporter

Mar 01, 2007 04:30 AM

Louise Brown
Education Reporter

There are two schools in Toronto – one in the east and one in the west – where three-quarters of Grade 3 children hit the mark on province-wide tests.

Both of them beat the provincial average.

So why does a new report card on Ontario schools give one top marks, but suggest the other could do better?

to read full article, please go to:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/186664

ONTARIO'S BEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS by David Johnson

February 28, 2007 ....

 Percentile scores for all Ontario schools where data are complete for the three years can be found in Ontario Public Schools Performance — Updated with Results up to 2005/06 , a document published with this e-brief and available at www.cdhowe.org/signposts.cfm.5 In Figure 1, percentile scores are shown in parentheses for the schools included as examples. Notice that Lakewoods, Holy Rosary, Iroquois Junior and Blythwood all have a percentile score at or near 50, meaning that they offer little value-added when taking into account their socioeconomic context. Palgrave has positive value-added and scores at the 94th percentile, while Gladys Speers has negative value-added and registers at the 4th percentile. Why do these performance indicators matter? ...

<br><br>to read full report, please go to:

http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/ebrief_39.pdf

ONTARIO PUBLIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

Ontario Public Schools Performance - Updated With Results Up to 2005-2006

The David Johnson / C.D. Howe Institute Ontario School Performance Database (2007)

to see the full report, please go to:

http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/ebrief_39scoresupdate2007.pdf

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