For years, parents looking for data to compare the academic quality of schools for their children had one primary measure to turn to: average student scores on standardized tests.
In a study published Thursday in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, researchers David M. Houston of George Mason University and Jeffrey R. Henig of Teachers College, Columbia University, found that providing parents with achievement growth data encourages them to consider schools with greater economic and racial diversity, but only up to a point.
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