颇具争议的My School 网站将被重新审核

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颇具争议的My School 网站将被重新审核

颇具争议的联邦政府的My School 网站系统衡量学校社区标准，将会在未来两周内重新进行评估审核。之后将再次重新推出。

教育部发言人昨日确定各州提供的原始数据将在my school网站上被互相参照使用。

与此同时，此次审查还包括对不公平的所谓的 'like schools'比较系统的重新评估。此前在my school网站的统计中，‘like schools'包括了Bulli High School 和 Trinity Grammar。而边远地区的学校则和超过1000名学生的市区学校直接进行比较。

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/controversial-my-school-index-to-be-reviewed-20100207-nkxr.html

THE controversial system used to measure the social disadvantage level of school communities used on the federal government's My School website is under review, less than two weeks after the site's launch.

A spokesman for the Education Minister, Julia Gillard, confirmed yesterday that source data supplied by the states would be cross-referenced with data published on the My School website.

The review also follows complaints about unfair comparisons between so-called ''like schools''. Some of the schools the website said to be statistically similar have included Bulli High School and Trinity Grammar.

Small schools in remote areas have been directly compared to those that have more than 1000 students in city areas.

Ms Gillard yesterday announced that an extra $11 million in funding over one year would be provided to 110 disadvantaged schools in addition to the government's $2.5 billion national partnership package with the states to assist disadvantaged schools.

Ms Gillard made the announcement in a television interview after being asked about the partnership package.

The government has maintained that the My School website would be used to identify the schools needing assistance.

However, allocations from the $2.5 billion package were made to schools last year based on results from national literacy and numeracy tests, and other data supplied from the states.

Ms Gillard said the additional $11 million was a response to data from the website and that the schools would not have otherwise received funding under the $2.5 billion Smarter Schools National Partnership.

She said the 110 schools had results below both the national average and those for statistically similar schools in all areas on the NAPLAN national tests.

The president of the Australian Education Union, Angelo Gavrielatos, said the index of community socio-educational advantage (ICSEA) had been shown as ''totally inadequate and flawed'', having created some inexplicable groupings of schools.

He said the index compared Blacktown Boys High School and Alice Springs School of the Air, Holroyd High School and the Cocos Islands District High School, Terrigal High School (with 1300 students) and Cameron Downs School (with six students on a property in Central Western Queensland).

''The $11 million seems to have been an announcement made on the run,'' he said.

''Clearly we welcome any additional resources to schools. But for the minister to suggest the schools need to be public- ly ranked for the allocation of additional resources is disingenuous. All other schools that are part of the government's national partnership for low [socio-economic status] schools were identified last year.''

Mr Gavrielatos said the federal government had maintained that the national partnership was supposed to deliver $500,000 to an average-sized high school.

''This new announcement on the face of it appears to provide 110 schools with about $100,000 each, '' he said

The federal opposition spokesman for education, Christopher Pyne, said the My School website had played no role in the allocation of the $2.5 billion in funding to schools.

''If the ICSEA is being reviewed, on what basis is the new funding of $11 million across 110 schools being allocated?'' he asked.

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这样一改，网站的点击率又要大增。新旧对比，也会引出很多话题。