Education commissioner says so It’s sad. If legislators had listened to us, and to the people running the federal education Race to the Top (RTTT) funding sweepstakes, Kentucky would have already enacted a charter school law and the end result would have been an easy win for us. You see, with the extra 30 to…
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday’s office has just released the following: Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday issued this statement today, after the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement of the federal Race to the Top funding winners: “Although I’m disappointed that Kentucky’s application was not selected for funding in the first round of the Race to…
NAEP shows Kentucky’s eighth graders aren’t making ANY! Quite frankly, I was shocked. With all the hype this week about Kentucky being the only state to show reading progress in both fourth and eighth grade in the new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Assessment results, I thought I could show you a graph…
And how two school boards wasted tax dollars trying to hide embarrassments The Central Kentucky News-Journal hits the nail on the head. It will be interesting to learn how much money the Campbellsville Independent and Taylor County school systems wasted on the three-year long lawsuit they fought to deny the public the right to know.
It seems like a “no-brainer.” If you simplistically look at the overall fourth grade reading scores for all students from the newly released 2009 administration of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), Kentucky ranks in a tie at 11th place from the top, while California ranks way down at 46th place. So, Kentucky’s education…
Since 2004 the rules in Kentucky have been chaotic. School superintendents basically lost control, becoming little more than employment search agencies for the all-powerful School Based Decision Making Councils (SBDM). It’s a mistake we’ve discussed before, such as here. Now, more people are coming to our point of view. The latest to sign on for…
I’m not the only one raising questions about uneven exclusion rates in the National Assessment of Educational Progress for students with learning disabilities. Education Week’s Catherine Gewertz raises the issue in her March 25, 2010 blog item titled “Exclusion Rates in NAEP: A Pot Still Simmering.” You may have to scroll down a bit to…
I raised some questions yesterday about Kentucky’s fourth grade reading performance in the newly released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Report Card. Today, I’m going to point out some more issues, this time focused on the state’s eighth grade results. This graph shows results from the two most recent NAEP eighth grade…
Maybe too good The new National Assessment of Educational Progress results for the 2009 reading assessment were released today, and Kentucky’s overall performance really looks good. We were the only state in the nation to post a statistically significant score increase in both fourth and eighth grade (NAEP does not report on state high school…
WAVE-3 reports that House Bill 301, which will raise the minimum high school dropout age in Kentucky, passed the Kentucky Senate Education Committee today, but not until it was amended to delay implementation of the higher age requirements by a year. Now, the age won’t rise from 16 to 17 until 2015, and it won’t…