Boston officials should stop slandering their own schools

LAST MONTH SAW the tragic spectacle of top Boston school officials saying two high schools should be closed because of falling enrollment and so-called “academic challenges.” But students, parents, and teachers with direct, first-hand experience of those schools painted a completely different picture.

It was an extreme example of a distorted process happening throughout the Boston Public Schools and all of Massachusetts schools: equating test scores with school quality.

Read the full article on Commonwealth Magazine website.