A new report presented by Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs the AP program) is loaded with educational comparison data for the 50 states and Washington DC. Over the past few days, we’ve looked at Kentucky’s substandard performance in getting students through to two-year…
Over the past few days I’ve been discussing a new “The College Completion Agenda, 2010 Progress Report” from the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs the AP program). Among other things, this College Board report takes some well-aimed shots at things our K to 12 education community needs to improve…
I’ve been writing about a new report from the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs the AP program). This report is loaded with educational comparison data for the 50 states and Washington DC. Yesterday, I discussed one of the most disturbing graphs in the report, which shows that Kentucky seriously…
One hundred sixty five under-performing teachers are being removed in Washington DC as the nation’s capital implements its new teacher corps improvement program, called IMPACT. IMPACT replaces a former, awkward and time-consuming process for removing poor teachers, a largely dysfunctional process similar to those typically found in virtually every school system in the country. The…
A new report presented by Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs the AP program) is loaded with educational comparison data for the 50 states and Washington DC. One of the most disturbing graphs (Figure 9.2c, page 149) shows that Kentucky seriously lags the national…
The New York Times reports today about something we’ve been talking about for some time – the fact that not enough of our younger citizens are going on to, and completing, higher education. A new report presented by Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs…
The Kentucky Department of Education just announced a major reorganization of the entire agency. According to the news release, the streamlined department has shed two major offices and $500,000 in salaries to support them. Says education commissioner Terry Holliday: “This model enables the agency to directly address priorities related to Senate Bill 1 and other…
Says pending new standards should be MUCH better for us The Thomas B. Fordham Institute just published comparisons of all the states’ existing education standards versus the new Common Core Standards that Kentucky is now adopting. The new standards were developed by a partnership of the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National…
More families join lawsuit against Jefferson County busing plan Adding to a story we’ve been tracking for some time, Wave-3 TV reports that still more families have joined the lawsuit against the Jefferson County Public Schools’ onerous busing plan that offers little hope that bad schools will improve. This busing plan forces some Jefferson County…
Civic leaders in Cincinnati get it: Teachers union contracts can stifle educational improvement The Sunday print edition of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Enquirer has a rather remarkable letter to the community from a host of the area’s civic leaders. This “Letter to the Community from Strive Partnership” pulls no punches about how the current contract between…