[reify]

A simple pencil mark on the door frame usually works best.

My adult kids love to look back to see how tall they were when they were 10 years old.

Instead of measuring schools how about we pay teachers more and demand decent education.

All this measuring! Measuring, measuring, measuring.

What a waste of time and money.

[brettcvz]

> demand decent education

Yes, but with 125k schools in the US and 3.5 million teachers, how do you determine which of them are providing a decent education?

[lubujackson]

That isn't the question that matters. What matter is what do we do with that knowledge? Because right now, the answer isn't a whole heck of a lot.

Systematically comparing schools on any metric accomplishes nothing. And every year for decades we act like we just need to identify the good schools and replicate their success, with literally actual regard given to what makes schools successful in the first place: functioning administration, involved parents, good and stable teachers. After that, curriculum and resources.

And a functioning administration is generally what gets sacrified first in pursuit of some across the board improvement in some flavor of the week metric.