How Do You Rank?
How do you rank schools? In the last several weeks, I've had three separate questions from parents that have gone something like the following: "Mr. Ascher, I was looking on this website (fill in the blank with a variety of choices) and it showed that your school was ranked 7 out of 10 possible stars. Why is that? I think your school should be ranked higher." The number of websites that allegedly ranks schools is shocking to me. Actually, I probably shouldn't be shocked. With the advent of social media and the internet, anyone can create websites or posts on anything. Realtor and parenting sites encourage their users to leave comments. I've even heard of some sites where students can leave comments on their guest teachers. Some sites use metrics that "supposedly" measure schools. Many of these sites, however, are for-profit sites. In other words, they make money through advertising dollars. In Michigan, wh...