Is same thing happening in Kentucky???? Well-known education historian Diane Ravitch just got a heads up about a potential testing problem in New York’s new Common Core State Standards aligned tests. Writes Ravitch: “A teacher in upstate New York wrote me to say that the state English language arts test for 8th grade (written by…
Herculean efforts by labor bosses at Kentucky’s teachers unions to convince lawmakers that charter schools are neither needed nor wanted in the commonwealth have succeeded. Our commonwealth remains one of only eight states without charter schools – publicly funded schools operated differently than the traditional public schools. For example, the principal of a successful charter…
Here is an interesting article that says you cannot compare the results from new Common Core tests given in New York to those from Kentucky. Weren’t we all told that was a major reason to go to CCSS?? I’ll see if there are any comments on this one, and then add more.
Albert Einstein Sadly, this comment from one of this country’s most noted scientists is most appropriate to the latest action by the Kentucky Board of Education concerning the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). With no dissention, the board reaffirmed its support today for the NGSS, an action that now sends these clearly inadequate standards on…
Or will Kentucky abandon science education beyond the 10th grade? As climate and evolution arguments swirl around Kentucky’s adoption of the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), some very important, far more basic issues are being totally overlooked. Essentially, the new NGSS cut off science at the 10th grade level. While NextGen Science does include…
Milton Friedman was remembered Thursday for being ahead of his time when it came to school choice, as well as his commitment to economic and political freedom at the Milton Friedman Legacy Day, sponsored jointly by the Bluegrass Institute and the Friedman Foundation for Education Choice. The event, which was held at Midwest Church…
In a major release, Kentucky’s US Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell take a strong and informed position in support of expanded school choice options for parents and students as an effective way to improve the nation’s chronically under-performing public school system. Some of the senators’ points: • “All children, no matter who they are…
School choice proponents received a breath of fresh air recently from a lawmaker speaking on the issue of compulsory school attendance. Unfortunately, that lawmaker doesn’t serve the Bluegrass State. Last week, Utah state senator Aaron Osmond spoke out against his state’s compulsory attendance laws, putting much of the blame on this mandate for public schools’…
The governor and Kentucky Department of Education staffers are reveling about the pending mandate that all of the state’s school districts will have to adopt a minimum high school dropout age of 18 by the 2017-18 school year. However, the high-performing Oldham County Public School District isn’t jumping on this bandwagon. The Oldham Era reports,…
While enough Kentucky school districts have now approved a minimum dropout age of 18 to make this mandatory in a couple of years for all school districts, there is plenty of quiet concern that this policy change may not really work so well. Among the doubters is Jefferson County Board of Education member Linda Duncan,…