Close to zero if we’re averaging over all schools, somewhat higher but still not great if we’re looking at a narrower reference class, but that’s not a very informative statistic either way. If I was considering whether to enroll a hypothetical child in an expensive private school, I’d primarily be interested in whether I could expect better educational outcomes, not whether the educational philosophy’s closer to ideal in some abstract sense. There’s a lot of ways for a school to have good intentions and fail in implementation, and still more for a school to signal good intentions and fall short of them in practice.
The NYT article’s leading me to suspect the latter. Still, I suppose I should give some credit for effort.
Close to zero if we’re averaging over all schools, somewhat higher but still not great if we’re looking at a narrower reference class, but that’s not a very informative statistic either way. If I was considering whether to enroll a hypothetical child in an expensive private school, I’d primarily be interested in whether I could expect better educational outcomes, not whether the educational philosophy’s closer to ideal in some abstract sense. There’s a lot of ways for a school to have good intentions and fail in implementation, and still more for a school to signal good intentions and fall short of them in practice.
The NYT article’s leading me to suspect the latter. Still, I suppose I should give some credit for effort.