I wrote yesterday about how the results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress grade 4 math assessment concern me that KERA, 20 years later, isn’t performing nearly as well as we need it to. Here is how Kentucky stacked up at the eighth grade level on the same assessment. As with the fourth…
The US Chamber of Commerce’s new report, “Leaders and Laggards, A State-by-State Report Card on Education Innovation” takes a dim view of Kentucky’s policies for removing ineffective teachers from the state’s classrooms. The Chamber awarded us an overall grade of “F” for our performance on these teacher policies. That is no surprise. Kentucky doesn’t even…
White students comprise somewhere around 85 percent of Kentucky’s overall school population. So, if we want to know how the vast majority of our kids compare to their peers in other states, one way to do that is to look at white only scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. This map shows how…
– And, our TEACHERS run the councils! The new “Leaders and Laggards, A State-by-State Report Card on Education Innovation” report from the US Chamber of Commerce will, as I mentioned earlier, raise some eyebrows. Here’s one great example that got somewhat hidden in my first post. It bears repeating with emphasis. After you consider some…
— Support cutting across political alignments The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce recently floated a pretty straight-forward idea – with the economy in trouble and the state facing a serious budget shortfall, state workers should pay a bit more each month for their very generous health care program. Of course, the unions involved had knee-jerk, negative…
After a great deal of anticipation, the final rules for states to compete for over $4 billion in federal Race to the Top stimulus money are finally coming out. Education Week reports (subscription) that Kentucky will start out of the blocks at up to a 32 point disadvantage in this high stakes competition due to…
I wrote yesterday about a new report from the US Chamber of Commerce that will raise eyebrows about what is, and isn’t, happening in our schools. Let’s take a deeper look at some of the interesting data in that report. First up are some real shockers. Here are the results from an opinion poll called…
The US Chamber of Commerce just issued a new report, “LEADERS and LAGGARDS, A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation.” It takes a new approach to evaluating education in the 50 states using a number of statistics that have not been part of earlier discussions. And, to be sure, the new report is going to…
It started with an administrative complaint to the Kentucky Department of Education filed by the Children’s Law Center, a non-profit in Lexington, on behalf of 12 students. Those students claimed they were denied special education services by the Fayette County School District. The complaint also contended that the district systematically does not identify students who…
– Jefferson County – you did it to yourself We have written plenty over the years (such as here and here) about the “lowball” reading performance target the Jefferson County Public School System set for itself several years ago with its “Every1Reads” program. The district took it upon itself to change the Kentucky Board of…