UCF professor: Poverty explains a lot about school rankings, likely hides some school successes

6 February 2012, 7:33 am

A University of Central Florida professor saw the rankings of Florida’s public schools, ran some numbers and determined that statewide nearly half the difference in rankings could be explained by the varying rates of poor children enrolled at the different campuses. When you attempt to account for that demographic variation, you find that some schools that [...]... Read More »

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