The new, 2018-19 school year public school accountability report is finally out for Kentucky. Overall, as the Courier Journal points out in “New Kentucky test scores show stark differences in JCPS schools’ achievement,” the results are “underwhelming,” at best. We’ve already looked at predominantly falling performance on the state’s KPREP tests and on the ACT…
“When we look at poverty, when we look at homelessness, when we look at food insecurity, when we look at trauma that many of our kids face … that’s no excuse for not achieving and improving student outcomes.” Dr. Marty Pollio, Superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools Quoted in “New Kentucky test scores show stark…
Kentucky has finally released the results from its school assessments for the 2018-2019 school term (many weeks after the next school term started), and we can now see what happened after a tumultuous year where standards still rather close to the Common Core remain and where more than a few teachers abandoned their students to…
Kentucky has finally released the results from its school assessments for the 2018-2019 school term (many weeks after the next school term started), and we can now see what happened after a tumultuous year where standards still rather close to the Common Core remain and where more than a few teachers abandoned their students to…
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences under the National Center for Education Statistics just posted an interesting study titled “Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales: Results From the 2017 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments.” Essentially, this study uses the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as a ruler to allow…
Regular readers know I am extremely unhappy about the quality of Kentucky’s new social studies standards, which finally became official on July 5, 2019. One of my major concerns is that the new standards omit tons of important content that every child in the state deserves to learn. Now, it looks like even the Prichard…