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HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Local & State
April 26, 2005, 11:04PM
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ONLINE RESOURCES
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| Two Web
sites allow parents and educators to find information about every school
in the nation and evaluate and compare schools. • www.schoolmatters.com: Among its vast resources, SchoolMatters lets users track and cross-reference data, learn about the community around each school, and evaluate the class environment within them. • www.heritage.org/schoolchoice: Offers a database of school choice laws and enrollment opportunities in each state. |
WASHINGTON - Two new Web sites allow parents and educators to access a wealth of information about every school in the country and analyze it online.
Developed by Standard & Poor's and the Council of Chief State School Officers, www.schoolmatters.com offers standardized test results that are searchable by school.
The site also lists student demographics, school spending amounts, teacher salaries, local scores on the SAT and ACT college admission tests, and determines whether a school was meeting federal standards for annual progress.
SchoolMatters lets users track and cross-reference the data, learn about the community around each school, and evaluate the class environment within them.
Similar Texas school information also is available on the Texas Education Agency web site: www.tea.state.tx.us/accountability.html; and a U.S. Department of Education Web site: nces.ed.gov/nationsreport card/.
On Tuesday, the Heritage Foundation launched "Choices in Education," a database of school choice laws and enrollment opportunities in each state.
Accessible at www.heritage .org/schoolchoice, the Web site also offers archives of school choice research studies, news articles and chronologies of school choice policy arranged by state.
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative, Washington-based think tank that is in favor of school choice. Its site connects people with local organizations that will help them locate and enroll in schools that meet their needs.
No Child Left Behind laws have required state education agencies to file much of this data since 2001, but it has only recently been publicly available on the Internet.
justin.gest@chron.com