Once again, Ohio missed a chance to move progressively forward in helping to improve the state’s public education system.  Instead of promoting a clearer understanding of the (already off-target) measures that Ohio’s elected officials and, by law, the Ohio Department of Education use to rate schools and districts, the state’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Waiver Request proposed a regression to the uninformative and out-of-date practice of using a letter-grade system.

As an educator and parent I could rail for days about the lack of actual meaning behind any letter grade, whether an A or an F, and […]