From a CNBC Press Release: “On the 2013 New York State exam, aligned for the first time with the rigorous Common Core State Standards, Success Academy Schools ranked in the top 1 percent of all New York schools in math and in the top 7 percent in English language arts. Two Success Academy Schools in…
It used to be inappropriate to do much state to state ranking with the ACT scores because the percentage of high school graduates in each state that took this college entrance text varied dramatically. Particularly in states where the SAT is preferred, relatively few students took the ACT, making comparisons to Kentucky’s performance impossible. That…
In its 2006 evaluation of state standards, the Fordham Institute said California came out at the very top, with a solid “A” grade for both math and English. That was then. Now, California is converting to use of the Common Core State Standards. And, a new Education Week Article, “N.Y. Test-Score Plunge Adds Fuel to…
Surprising comments and data in the new ACT Profile Report for Kentucky for the Graduating Class of 2013 shed more light on one of the most contested parts of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in math. That contested CCSS policy is the shifting of Algebra 1 from the eighth grade to the ninth grade.…
The new ACT scores are out, and that allowed me to update my long-running analysis of public school and non-public school student performance on this assessment. Here is how that looks. This first table shows the performance over time for Kentucky’s public school students who took the ACT under the standard testing time conditions. You…
ACT results for all graduating seniors in the Class of 2013, public and private school combined, have been released. ACT changed the way it reported scores this year, and that makes it trickier than ever to insure doing “Apples-to-Apples” comparisons of the new data to that from previous years. So, in this first post I…
By most accounts, Massachusetts used to have the best education standards in the country before Common Core State Standards came along. For example, around half a decade after switching to those former, outstanding standards, the Bay State blasted its way to the top on both reading and mathematics on the federal National Assessment of Educational…
After advocating for the traditional public school system, Fox News reports Matt Damon proves that when it’s his own kids, he’ll take school choice. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Voorheesville Central School District superintendent Dr. Teresa Thayer Snyder knows test gaming well. Writing about the new Common Core State Standards aligned test results in New York, she says: “…test developers control the scaled scores—indeed they have developed a draconian statistical formula that is elaborate, if indecipherable, to determine scaled scores. I would bet my…
Is same thing happening in Kentucky???? Well-known education historian Diane Ravitch just got a heads up about a potential testing problem in New York’s new Common Core State Standards aligned tests. Writes Ravitch: “A teacher in upstate New York wrote me to say that the state English language arts test for 8th grade (written by…