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悉尼寄宿制的私立学校里的学生家庭远比我们一开始所想象的要富裕。难怪有这么多学校害怕一旦这个秘密被揭露它们将失去联邦教育拨款。
SMH报道,悉尼地区寄宿制的私立学校的ICSEA值在My School V2.0里新计算模式下平均比原来高了15%。
因为这些私立学校里有部分学生并不是来自学校所在的地区,就读本校来自其他地区的学生家庭可能比学校所在地的平均家庭要富裕,比如富有的农场主送孩子来城里上学,这些农场主远比城里的居民富有。
平均来说,宿制制私校的ICSEA要比普通全日制私校高。具体数据是:
- 宿制制私校的ICSEA值从平均1142上升到了1163;
- 普通全日制私校的ICSEA从平均1134上升到了1142;
其中,
Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart的ICSEA上升了15%,从1157跳升至1336。
The King's School的ICSEA值从1156上升到了1184.
Elite boarding schools fear battler status
Anna Patty and Dan Harrison
December 2, 2010 - 3:00AM
STUDENTS at Sydney's private boarding schools are from even wealthier families than first thought. So much so, that many schools fear they will lose funding once the secret is out.
Socio-economic scores given to every school on the federal government's My School website have been recalculated this year using enrolment information instead of the census district data used for last year's scores.
Using the new measure, the scores for private boarding schools have risen by up to 15 per cent on the new version of the My School website, expected to be released by next week.
The federal government, however, still uses census district data to distribute funding.
It is believed some boarding schools attract inflated funding because the families of country students may be wealthier than where they live suggests. For example, wealthy farming families from poor rural areas often attend Sydney boarding schools.
It is believed the new socio-economic scores on the My School website will influence a review of funding headed by the businessman David Gonski, who is also a member of the Sydney Grammar board of trustees.
The Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage was devised to enable more meaningful and fairer comparisons of schools, based on results from national literacy and numeracy tests, published on the My School site.
A new analysis by Chris Bonnor, a former high school principal and president of the Secondary Principals Council, using draft index scores, suggests the average increase for boarding schools is much higher than for day schools.
He said the average index for boarding schools had increased by 21, from 1142 to 1163, while that for day schools had risen by eight, from 1134 to 1142.
Geoff Newcombe, chief executive of the Association of Independent Schools, said he was surprised by the difference.
Hilary Johnston-Croke, principal of Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart, whose score rose by more than 15 per cent under the new methodology, from 1157 to 1336, said the change to the index was ''aberrant'' and she had asked the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, the agency responsible for the website, to review it.
She questioned the methodology, saying the school had a number of boarding students from remote areas, and indigenous students on scholarships.
''It doesn't give you a great deal of confidence in the process,'' Mrs Johnston-Croke said.
The state government has strongly backed the changes to the index, and has not challenged the index values of any NSW public schools.
The Herald understands Catholic education authorities have asked for the index scores of all Catholic schools in NSW and Victoria to be reviewed.
Tim Hawkes, the headmaster of the King's School in Parramatta, confirmed the score for his school had increased from 1156 last year to 1184.
''It is a convoluted score which is not well understood,'' he said. ''This makes the process of appeal rather difficult.
''One of the things we must do is to get the score right because it helps determine the groups of like schools against which a school is going to be compared.
''There is also the possibility in future years of [Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage] scores influencing such things as funding.
''This is why the predictable opponents of independent schooling, like Chris Bonnor, get excited when the scores of many independent schools go up and those of many government schools go down.''
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... 20101201-18gr6.html |
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