As I wrote earlier today, the first news about Kentucky’s 2009-10 school year performance is mixed, at best. • The percentage of schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress under NCLB is down, again. • Proficiency rates in Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) in our high schools declined in every subject except writing. • There were…
High schools see many declines in KCCT scores The first news is mixed, at best. The percentage of schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress is down, again. The Kentucky Department of Education’s 10-052 News Release shows that in 2010 only 55.6 percent of the state’s schools reached their NCLB targets. The BRIEFING PACKET, STATE RELEASE,…
New web site started working around 9 AM Data on the 2010 performance of Kentucky’s public school system is starting to flow from the Kentucky Department of Education, and the link to the promised new data collection web site activated somewhere between 7:45 and 9 AM Eastern. Apparently, the new ‘site’ is really a single…
What did she do to the environment? The Courier-Journal reports that Pat Todd, the Jefferson County Public Schools director of student assignment – the czar of the district’s out of control busing plan – is leaving her job. Todd leaves at a time, as the news article points out, “…when public objections over long bus…
The Kentucky Department of Education will be using new formats for the annual school performance reporting that will be released tomorrow. Three separate areas will be included. The three report sections are: Achievement o Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT) Combined Reading and Mathematics Proficient/Distinguished Report o Federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) data o Iowa…
The Center on Education Policy (CEP) recently issued a report titled “State Test Score Trends Through 2008-09, Part 1, Rising Scores on State Tests and NAEP,” lauding a supposed discovery that improvement on both state public school tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is moving in the same direction and looks much…
Last Saturday, “Northern Kentucky’s Promise” sponsored a conference in Covington on reducing dropouts in our public schools. While there were a number of interesting presentations and discussions, one discussion that really stood out in my mind came from Michael Carter, the Interim Senior Vice President of Sinclair Community College, which is in Dayton, Ohio. Mr.…
Once again, the Advance Kentucky program to improve Advanced Placement (AP) course participation and performance in Kentucky’s high schools has produced some really impressive results. This program, which I have written about before, features many innovations such as very careful and thorough training of AP teachers along with merit pay for those teachers and rewards…
Several weeks ago, the Bluegrass Institute released my new report, “Virtual schooling in Kentucky: Great promise with challenges,” about virtual learning systems in Kentucky. It focused on the Kentucky Virtual High School system which serves both advanced students who want to take Advanced Placement courses and those students who have fallen behind and need special…
But, why? The Kentucky Department of Education has some good news about Advanced Placement course taking in Kentucky. The number of test takers, number of tests taken, and number of passing scores (3 or higher) have all increased. We’ll have to wait until Friday to learn how much of the increase comes from the very…