Map: School API vs. academic growth

Many schools that place high on the state's Academic Performance Index, a measure of achievement levels on standardized tests, received low scores in The Times' "value-added" analysis based on those same tests. The map shows schools that placed in the highest and lowest third of L.A. elementary schools on the two measures. Click on the markers to view school scores.

Blue markers - high-API, low-value-added
Yellow markers - low-API, high-value-added

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KlausN at 4:47 PM September 03, 2010

John Dewey, actually..

KlausN at 4:37 PM September 03, 2010

I'm sure that Albert Einstein or Thomas Dewey would puke to think that public education could have ended up in such a quantized wasteland.

Wake up, people! They don't want to educate you, they just want to give you enough training to work a cash register at WalMart.

LAUSD Booster at 11:33 AM August 29, 2010

I am very happy to see that Erwin St. Elementary did well - despite local parents' migration to higher API schools to the South (Colfax, Sherman Oaks, etc.). It did great and I hope will do even better as parents / neighbors realize that its faculty achieve results.

The lesson to me is that we need to support our local schools! We can eliminate long drives, encourage socialization in the neighborhood and boost our property values.

Thank you LA Times - of course, there are defects with the database, but I'm glad you have us talking!

Proud parent of successful LAUSD students!

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