Great API info from GreatSchools.net

While compiling the Ed news round-up post, I noticed that the SjMerc's Education page featured a wealth of links to information about school performance results. And all links pointed to our friends at GreatSchools.net, the ones who bring you the invaluable BOE meeting notes we are so happy to publish here.

On of the more interesting pages on their site is on named The API: 10 Things Parents Should Know. I've take the liberty of reprising the list here:

1. The API is not a test…
2. The API measures both school performance and improvement…
3. The API has very high stakes…
4. The API measures academic performance, not school quality…
5. The API focuses on achievement for all students…
6. Schools that don't improve their APIs must get help…
7. API results are for schools and districts only…
8. The API has changed…
9. The API will keep changing Over the next few years, the API will continue to incorporate more and different measures of student learning and school quality…
10. The API is complicated…

They really do an excellent job of demystifying a complex subject. Go there and read it.