Closing the Measurement Gap
Why ‘risk adjustment’ could work for education.
In June, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report identifying high-mortality hospitals for heart patients. What’s striking about the report is not the number of hospitals on the list, but how few there were.
Only 41 hospitals—less than 1 percent of all hospitals nationwide—were identified as high-mortality. Yet in the 2004-05 school year, 26 percent of American schools landed on education’s comparable list—those that did not make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
How is it possible that education has so many more organizations on its failing list? It’s not that there is a performance gap between schools and hospitals. The trouble is the profound measurement gap...
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