How Good Are Our Schools?

Hezel, Francis X. (2001-01-17). [www.micsem.org/edstats.htm How Good Are Our Schools?]. Micronesian Counselor (Report). Kolonia, Pohnpei: Micronesian Seminar. pp. 1–14.

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Abstract: For over twenty years now, since self-government began in the late 1970s, we have been running our own school systems. Isn’t it time that we stepped back, took a long look at the performance of our education, and asked just how good our schools are?

Some may squirm a little at this question for fear that the answer might prove embarrassing. Yet, regular evaluation is standard procedure for every organization. We assign our students grades and give them report cards periodically during the school year to measure their progress. Why shouldn’t we grade our schools on their performance in an effort to determine how the education system under our care is doing? This may be an especially opportune time to take a long hard look at our school systems inasmuch as FSM and the Marshalls are renegotiating US assistance under the Compact of Free Association. The United States is urging the two nations to establish clear objectives and benchmarks for what they hope to accomplish in the next several years. Reform of education, however, should not be motivated by a desire to satisfy our donor nations. It should be done out of concern for our own young people, whose future will depend in great part on the quality of education they receive. We fail them and ourselves if we don’t give them the best education that we can.

Even if we work up the courage to evaluate the performance of our schools, it’s not easy to get the information that we need to do so...

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DOI: 10.1177/019263655403820501
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