After some months of delay, an interactive website, which has a unique portfolio of student test results, skills and level of the visit is for all parents before the end of June, the Ministère de l ‘ Education said Thursday.
The announcement was made at a critical time for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: in Albania, the legislators are to be renewed, weighing the right to control the schools, mayor of the city, at the end of June 30, and on top of their concerns as the mayor and schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, are the parents.
Chancellor Klein said the criticism, above all, always fall on deaf ears, the voices from outside, including complaints from parents that the pressure of tests to replace the quality of teaching in schools.
On Thursday, Mr. Klein has tried to show a softer prices for hard efforts of responsibility: the colors, sometimes whimsical, web site, the main characters of the story explains the difference between, for example, the performance level 3 am to 4 pm in Math.
He started the site, known as Parent Link, a “powerful tool” for parents to work closely with teachers of their children.
“This is the use and the information is not just a customer,” he said after a news conference at Public School 85 in Astoria, Queens. “It’s the magic of this.”
On the website you can involve parents in all classes and courses on test results, but not on the outcome of each task class. You can also click on the participation of the story and see the likelihood of a student for the transition to the next tests in math and English, based on periodic evaluations of the city tests. You can also see how your child is in comparison with children in schools to serve the population of students.
Related link site in nine languages, is part of a $ 80 million data and information developed by IBM, known as the reporting and innovation or ARIS. Parent Link from the initiative of the City on the cost of $ 900,000, according to the Ministry of Education.
The ARIS system, which was seen as a revolutionary product that allows educators to recognize the deficiencies in the education of students and to share successful strategies has been slow to remove. These guidelines were developed with the system for two years, and teachers from November. Some managers have grown frustrated with the oddities of last autumn, have improvised their own data management systems.
Since then, the Ministry of Education and the system is now easier to operate, said Chiara Coletti, a spokeswoman for the union of the school.
In January 2008, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in his speech to the city that parents access the site through the fall. In October, for the education of parents such access since December. The city launched the program from three schools in the autumn of last year and the extension of use in the spring.
Klein said that security and last-minute adjustment led to delays. “You wish, you can do before,” he said.
Ann Gordon-Chang, director general of the PS-85, one of the pilot schools, said that the system has changed, how parents feel about test data. He recalled the story of a father, to remind their children in school, but has, after test results and to see that progress has been within reach.
“Parents are better informed, Ms. Gordon said Chang.” They are very focused on working with teachers to help students. “
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