A Nashville education blogger ponders the deeper meaning of all the horn-tooting over “Reward Schools.”
A comparison of this year’s list with previous years shows designations change constantly—Reward one year, not-Reward the next. The only thing consistent is that Priority Schools almost never escape the list.
Many have been on it for a decade or more.
They serve low-income, multi-cultural, multilingual communities.
We know—have known—that external factors shape internal results.
Yet we cling to these lists like they’re diagnostic tools rather than PR instruments.
