Dr. Carol Burris is co-author of this article. It was a relatively simple task to define a "great school" a couple years ago, at least if we listened to politicians and policymakers. It was all about test scores. A school with high scores was better than that school down the road where the scores were less impressive. These scores were also the prized lever for school accountability and improvement, as operationalized through policies like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. But test-based policies are unsuccessful in driving greater learning, as more and more people have been pointing out. So emerging ideas are now breathing new life into more expansive and...
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