– It doesn’t happen in Kentucky Up in Ohio, they take No Child Left Behind seriously. When schools chronically fail to make adequate yearly progress over an extended period of time, the Kentucky Enquirer indicates that the teachers must apply and interview as though they are new hires to keep their jobs. While the Enquirer…
Thanks to some extensive data collecting by Strive Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (See the “2009 Striving Together: Report Card”), I just got a chance to compare some performance measures such as high school graduation rates and ACT scores for Kentucky Catholic Schools to those of nearby public schools. In Northern Kentucky, Catholic Schools offer the major school…
– Kentucky still has none Perhaps partly in a reaction to strong pressure from Washington, Tennessee will significantly increase its number of charter schools. First priority to enter them will go to Tennessee’s most disadvantaged kids and those in failing schools or with failing grades. Meanwhile, here in Kentucky our parents get no choices like…
The report caught my attention right away. A few days ago the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) released a new report, “Keeping Middle Grades Students on the Path to Success in High School.” The new report discusses the proper place to set state test standards, a subject that I have discussed for Kentucky in a…
In what is now part one on this subject, I pointed to the strong indication in the available data that relatively low graduation rates in Kentucky’s public colleges are due to correspondingly low percentages of students who enter the system with adequate preparation. I noticed something else in the graph in that earlier post –…
Over at the Prichard Committee’s blog they have been putting up all sorts of graphs with statistics on college graduation rates for Kentucky’s public universities. While the Prichard folks haven’t come right out and said it, the strong hint they seem to be dropping is that Kentucky’s colleges are not doing a very good job…
Over at the Kentucky School News and Commentary Blog (KSN&C;), they are really starting to talk up charters. Within the last couple of days, the site has posted an interesting list of considerations if Kentucky sets up charter legislation and made comments that Kentucky could be at a strong competitive disadvantage for second-tier education stimulus…
There actually is some very good news buried in “Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States.” However, there also is more evidence that effective analysis of charter schools is very difficult, and even analysts sometimes don’t fully understand the most important messages in the data. For example, even the Multiple Choice report’s lead author…
Kentucky’s governor and its Secretary Of Education Helen Mountjoy are trying to convince the US Secretary of Education that Kentucky’s School Based Decision Making Councils are a suitable alternative to the charter schools the federal official favors. But, WFPL radio knows that is anything but a done deal.
– Many experts not fooled It looks like high school dropouts are on a lot of peoples’ minds right now. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that many experts looking at dropout rates for Kentucky and Ohio consider the official rates to be “generous.” In other words, experts consider the real situation to be definitely worse than…