Indiana is adopting a teacher evaluation system in six pilot programs that will link pay to student performance. Meanwhile, Kentucky talks the talk, but isn’t even crawling as adults in the school system block all efforts to do the right thing for students.
I guess the violence on Jefferson County school buses will finally stop – after school shuts down. Meanwhile, the Courier-Journal reports that the director of transportation, Rick Caple, says he didn’t know that there had been a sharp rise in reported bus incidents in the last two years. Yeah, Right! Someone in Jefferson County must…
This graph compares the recently reported success rate of our high school graduates in going on to college and careers versus the much lower rate of success when we consider ALL of the students who entered high school with each graduating class. Clearly, a lot of kids are being left behind once we consider EVERYONE.…
WAVE-3 TV reports that thousands of Jefferson County students are graduated from high school in 2010 and headed on to other life pursuits such as higher education or the workforce. What WAVE-3 missed is the fact that new data from the Kentucky Department of Education shows that a chunk of last year’s Jefferson County graduates…
It’s not just the economy Along with other non-academic data, the Kentucky Department of Education released new statistics yesterday on how the state’s high school class of 2010 did in entering follow-on pursuits such as getting a job or going on to college and the military. I assembled the new data with older years of…
A lot of research says kids tend to lose some of the skills they learn in school during summer breaks. In one attack on the problem, educators in Boone County are offering summer reading books at low cost that are targeted at the proper age level for students. Whether a parent chooses the Boone County…
Why Not???!!! The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) just released new non-academic data for the state – sort of. The problem is the most important information – namely Kentucky’s very first high school graduation rate data using a credible formula instead of inflated nonsense – is NOT included. The news release excuses: “to ensure data…
Congratulations to Superintendent Josh Powell KDE, pay attention The Union County School District has been ‘on our RADAR’ since 2009 when its superintendent, Josh Powell, stood up to pressure from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to do things their way, using their assistance team to help, or else. Powell felt he had some better…
And, it didn’t take an age 18 dropout law to make it happen Good news is starting to come in from several districts that have set up alternative high school programs for students in danger of dropping out of traditional programs. On May 31, the Hopkins County Schools Academy held its first commencement, with 33…
What do you think? Should schools have the right to punish parents when kids don’t learn? Check out this article from the New York Times. Let us hear your comments.