How Parents Grade Schools
by
Sean Kelly and Laura Northrop
| November 16, 2013
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Fall 2013
Scholars Sean Kelly and Laura Northrop discuss recent changes in perceptions of school quality. They find that Americans are not positive about the overall quality of elementary and secondary schools in the United States, while beliefs about school-to-school differences in quality are often exaggerated.
Authors
Sean Kelly is in the administrative and policy studies department in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Assessing Teacher Quality.
Laura Northrop is in the social and comparative analysis in education program at the University of Pittsburgh.
