If school rankings were in part based on whether schools did voter registration , that would change things fast. We measure what we really value. Lip service for the rest.
If school rankings were in part based on whether schools did voter registration , that would change things fast. We measure what we really value. Lip service for the rest.
What do you mean by whether ‘schools did voter registration’ - Just curious. Also how would it be implemented to affect school rankings? Worth hearing more about your idea.
To broaden it, I assume that the orgs that do high school rankings don't include civics in any way. If whether a high school conducted voter registration for eligible students (being a citizen and often 17 1/2 years of age or older) was included in the metric for judging the quality of a school then school administrators would defnitely make voter registration (or civics more broadly) a priority. But it isn't and they don't. The system is working IAW the incentives that are valued. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings
If school rankings were in part based on whether schools did voter registration , that would change things fast. We measure what we really value. Lip service for the rest.
What do you mean by whether ‘schools did voter registration’ - Just curious. Also how would it be implemented to affect school rankings? Worth hearing more about your idea.
To broaden it, I assume that the orgs that do high school rankings don't include civics in any way. If whether a high school conducted voter registration for eligible students (being a citizen and often 17 1/2 years of age or older) was included in the metric for judging the quality of a school then school administrators would defnitely make voter registration (or civics more broadly) a priority. But it isn't and they don't. The system is working IAW the incentives that are valued. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings
I am against perhaps all 1 to N rankings. It's all BS. But as long as it's being done.....
A bigger conversation. Credentialism et. al. Lao Tse and all.