Kentucky has a unique roadblock to digital learning that all other states are fortunate enough to avoid in school based decision making councils. Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes discusses this unique challenge to Kentucky. Share this video!
The Sentinel-News’ editors are asking why kids are still in school now that all of the testing is finished (subscription). As the newspaper correctly points out, “The week of school after KPREP/year-end exams seems a bit of a waste of time.” There isn’t much, if any, learning going on. It’s just a wasteful bureaucratic way…
Story sheds light on Kentucky’s learning disabled policies It’s an interesting story. Per the Courier-Journal’s article, “Achiever | Manual junior doesn’t need extra time to score 36 on ACT,” Jefferson County Public Schools student Kenny Jackson has been labeled as ADHD and could have qualified to get extra time to take the ACT college entrance…
I have a problem with people who somehow think certain sectors of the economy can magically be shielded from the realities of economics. The facts are that sooner or later, when real resources are not available, every area of society suffers. A case in point of the magical thinking viewpoint about economics came out today…
Over at Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday’s blog, he just posted these comments about nationwide performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): “All groups of children – white and non-white – have increased NAEP performance by as much as 20 to 30 points over the past 30 years. However, the overall NAEP…
It’s no secret. I don’t much care for US News and World Report’s dubious ranking scheme for high schools around the nation. However, that publication did stumble onto a really good Kentucky school when it named the Gatton Academy of Math and Science the number one high school in the nation. While Gatton’s exact true…
The New York Times is reporting on a potential school test cheating problem in New York City’s schools. It seems that teachers in at least two NYC elementary schools may have engaged in improper practices with students during state testing. The whistle got blown by teachers in the intermediate school where these students later were…
This past December the Kentucky Board of Education voted to remove the option of providing readers on the state’s reading assessment for children with learning disabilities. It was an important move to bring Kentucky in line with current policy in virtually every other state in the country, where using readers on reading tests is almost…
$16,518. That is how much it will cost an in-state undergraduate student to attend the University of Kentucky for a single year after this most recent 6 percent increase in tuition approved by the school’s Board of Trustees. This is not a new trend. In fact, according to a recent Lexington Herald-Leader article by Linda…
WFPL reported yesterday on the new National Assessment of Educational Progress eighth grade science results for 2011. Among other things, the on line article includes a map similar to this one which shows Kentucky’s performance on NAEP Grade 8 Science did not improve between 2009 and 2011 testing while a number of states did increase…