Our very own Dick Innes, Education Analyst for the Bluegrass Institute, was interviewed for today’s report from WFPL Louisville on the newest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores in science. In the report, Innes comments on the discrepancy in science scores between Kentucky and the rest of the nation. While many states have put…
The 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 8 Science Assessment results have been released, and when you look at overall scores across states, Kentucky is ahead of the national average. Sadly, that isn’t true for by far our largest student group, our white students. This first map (created with the Main NAEP Data…
As I write this, testing with the new Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) program is under way in the state’s public schools. K-PREP is completely different from the past CATS program and its Kentucky Core Content Tests, and those differences have generated a lot of questions, and not a little confusion, among both…
We talk frequently about charter schools here at the Bluegrass Institute, so I thought you might like to see where they are most frequently found. This list comes from US Department of Education data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Notes to the table As an additional note, I calculated the percentages in…
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice just released results from a new poll of adults which includes something rather special, a separate set of data on what moms want for their kids. Here’s a survey question about school vouchers and what moms and non-moms responded. So, what else do moms want? Freidman’s press release says:…
While digital learning is certainly an untapped goldmine for education, it is not without its technical challenges. These roadblocks are part of what keeps digital learning from moving forward quickly and significantly. In this installment of our digital learning video series, education analyst Richard Innes discusses these technical roadblocks.
Honest principal in Nevada points to gross error in data for his school US News and World Report’s (USN&WR) annual ranking of high schools came out only a few hours ago. Already, controversy is brewing about this dubious ranking program. This time, part of the problem is that some of the data stored at the…
We have talked a lot about the power of digital learning in our recent video series. A growing movement of reputable colleges and universities offering free courses online has just recently seen some big publicity. Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania are among many of the universities that are offering free…
Can digital learning help pave the way for school choice in Kentucky? Richard Innes discusses in this video:
Was there cheating on the Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT)? I wrote a few days ago about a new report, “Kentucky State Testing for Education Accountability: An Examination of Security-related Threats to Making Valid Inferences and Suggested Best Practices” from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (LRC). This report examines the current situation with testing security…