The ‘Green Crowd’ is going ‘Ga Ga’ over totally electric cars such as the Chevy Volt and the Ford Focus Electric, but an article from the authoritative Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ on line “The Institute” shows that there may be a long gap between what Greenies wish and what actually can happen. Here…
There is no doubt. The federal No Child Left Behind law’s (NCLB) stringent focus on boosting educational achievement for all student groups – including minorities, the poor and those with learning disabilities – never sat well with educators. NCLB exposed a great embarrassment for educators. Our schools have not closed achievement gaps despite over 20…
Earlier identified schools are making progress While there is disappointing news concerning the third group of schools to be identified as Persistently Low-Achieving (PLA) in Kentucky, there is good news about the schools in two earlier identified groups. Those earlier groups are known as School Improvement Grant (SIG) “Cohort 1” and “Cohort 2.” In every…
Schools tagged for low performance make silly excuses the data don’t support Among the 19 new Persistently Low-Performing Schools named a few days ago by the Kentucky Department of Education, five come from the troubled Jefferson County Public School System. This table shows how they performed for reading and math averaged together in 2010 and…
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) just announced the addition of 19 more schools to its listing of Persistently Low-Achieving Schools (PLAs). Basically, these schools performed in the bottom five percent of all schools in the state not previously identified as PLAs. The PLAs evaluation is based on recent math and reading performance from the…
It came up during today’s Kentucky Board of Education meeting in a discussion about extra help, called testing accommodations, given to students with learning disabilities. Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday pointed out something I have been saying since 1999 – Kentucky’s testing policies for learning disabled students impact the validity of the state’s reading…
The National Assessment Governing Board has announced that Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday will join the board in October. NAGB, as it is often called from its initials, oversees policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a very important set of federally administered tests. Dr. Holliday’s excellent background and strong commitment to data…
Calling it a “major legal and financial victory for the city of Cincinnati’s troubled pension system,” Cincinnati.com is reporting that “a Hamilton County judge ruled today that City Hall has the right to alter retirees’ health coverage to require most to absorb a higher share of the cost.” The ruling is likely to get a…
Here is the link to the radio report, which has several audio clips from an interview with Richard Innes about the Barren Academy for Virtual and Expanded Learning program.
WCPO-TV Channel 9 in Cincinnati provides this from our Digital Learning Now!: Obstacles to Implementation in Kentucky press conference. http://www.wcpo.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=10783