Comments on: Bad News? We Don’t Need No Stinking Bad News!

By: School Information System: Bad News? We Don’t Need No Stinking Bad News!

School Information System: Bad News? We Don’t Need No Stinking Bad News! — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:34:47 +0000

[...] Leo Casey: The New York City Department of Education web site has had a dramatic facelift, with almost every new whistle and bell you could want. [...]

By: Steve Perez

Steve Perez — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:29:12 +0000

Paul, why do you think the DOE chose not to put graduation rate there?

Should it be left to individual schools to post something as important as graduation rate?

By: Insideschools.org Blog: Leo Casey: DOE website obscuring important statistics

Insideschools.org Blog: Leo Casey: DOE website obscuring important statistics — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:17:04 +0000

[...] at Edwize, the UFT’s blog, Leo Casey describes his trouble trying to find documentation of schools’ graduation rates anywhere on the DOE’s website. I’ve grown so accustomed to finding [...]

By: Democrats for Education Reform

Democrats for Education Reform — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:56:31 +0000

[...] bet. On EdWize, Leo Casey makes an outstanding point about how hard it is to find a NYC high school's graduation rate on the new school system [...]

By: jd2718

jd2718 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:20:22 +0000

Um, Leo,

once you got there, you didn’t notice if they bothered to mention how they actually calculate the graduation rate?

I have a feeling it will take just as many clicks to dig up that piece of information, without which we really don’t know what the 99% means.

Jonathan

By: paulrubin

paulrubin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:48:54 +0000

Just so everyone’s clear on this, those school portals have very little information beyond what the DOE chooses to put there. Typically only one or two uesrs in a given school have access to the other information on the site and updates must be posted from an administratively connected computer rather than from anywhere online. And so it basically sits untouched for weeks, months at a time. Stuyvesant and many other schools have more dynamic real web sites which are the real ones used to diseminate info though whether or not a given high school posts its graduation rate is probably dependent on who’s overseeing that site.

This system, by the way, is a huge upgrade over what the DOE was doing before but in order to have school web sites that are part of schools.nyc.gov be useful pages, something really has to be done about the need to micromanage the updating process and limit from where those updates take place.