Performance Indicators

New York to release new student reports.

Parents in New York state will soon have more information on how their children are performing on state tests, and schools will be able to use the data to target students’ trouble areas and identify weak teachers.

The new system, called Grownet, will allow parents to view not just their child’s test scores, but information on how he or she is performing on a range of academic indicators. A sample report shows that in addition to a 4th grader’s mathematics score, parents would also see how the child performed on specific test tasks, such as geometry, and whether the child is below, within, or...