Olympia Fields Educational Commission

School District Performance

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The following links will take you to sites where you can study the raw numbers from the different districts and schools that serve Olympia Fields. Understanding the meaning of the scores is a different matter. We are working on ways to make this clearer for parents, students and other interested citizens.

Interactive Illinois Report Card

http://iirc.niu.edu/default.aspx?tsource=home Go to this site and pull up information on schools, districts, cities and counties

Illinois State Board of Education

This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 161.

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140161610ds_e.html

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This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 162.
http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140161620ds_e.html

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This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 170.

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140161700ds_e.html

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This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 206.

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140162060ds_e.html

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This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 227

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140162270ds_e.html

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This link will take you to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) site which has the 2010 School Year Report Card District Summary for District 233.

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2010&code=140162330ds_e.html
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Great Schools

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=e&district=464&x=80&y=15 Link to information for District 161.

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=e&district=677&x=71&y=10 Link to information for District 162.

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=e&district=336&x=78&y=9 Link to information for District 170.

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=h&district=266&x=76&y=13 Link to information for District 206.

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=h&district=866&x=77&y=13 Link to information for District 227.
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http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_compare/il/?area=d&sortby=name&tab=over&level=h&district=550&x=28&y=13 Link to information for District 233.

H. L. Mencken once said, "For every complex problem there is a simple solution — and it is usually wrong." So it is with the problem of academic achievement. We live in a society which is infatuated with television and material wealth and is less inclined than before to read, write and participate in elections. The solution is not necessarily more testing but greater attention to the curriculum, to teacher competence, and to the choices we want to offer children.

Judging school or school district's performance can be tricky. The above sites provide scores from the tests that students have taken. We are also including some judgments on what these scores mean.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSD/is_11_58/ai_80747029/pg_1 Links to an article about an Illinois school district that uses more than scores to assess its schools and students.

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