For parents wanting to know how their school stacks up, this is exactly what you want.
With help from several foundations in the U.S., Schleicher has just finished a pilot study of 100 American schools to enable principals, teachers and parents to see not just how America stacks up against China, but how their own school stacks up against similar schools in the best-educated countries, like Finland and Singapore.
I thought my zero years of med school stacked up well against my doctor's education so I quit for a month instead.
I thought my zero years of med school stacked up well against my doctor's education, so I quit for a month instead.
But instead of definitively establishing how New York City's public schools stack up, the grades have set off an impassioned debate about just how schools should be judged.
The charter school data will not answer a frequently asked question in the ongoing struggle over the direction of the public schools: how charter schools stack up against traditional public schools.
When it comes to running America's biggest companies, how do graduates of Harvard's B-school stack up against those of other schools?
As a result, demand for better education is swelling from the bottom up, as individual students, parents, and civil society groups are gaining greater awareness of how their schools stack up to international standards.
My imagination had been stoked by Kristof's descriptions, and I was eager to see how real Chinese schools stacked up.
The Schools Stacked up to Public School 321, the beloved Park Slope elementary school on Seventh Avenue that has dictated many families' decisions on where to live, Windsor Terrace elementary schools do not fare badly.
Such tests would allow parents to learn how their children's schools stacked up against others in the state, and how well their children were progressing from year to year.
