The Kentucky Board of Education approved new/updated education standards for computer science, reading and writing, health, math and physical education yesterday. Now, the regulations that formalize that approval go into a 30-day public comment period, and it’s your turn to comment. Still think the math, reading and writing standards look too much like Common Core…
Earlier today the Kentucky Board of Education voted to approve a revised regulation that for the first time implements some badly needed quality control over the Kentucky high school diploma. While the new criteria are rather modest, they at least start a process to reverse a situation we have been writing about since 2015 and…
The governing board for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has paid us some nice attention. They just Tweeted about our recent blog about “More on Kentucky’s true reading performance.” We are pleased that NAEP’s managers find our work of value and worth mentioning to others.
And, they didn’t start with the current commissioner of education, either For those who think the current proposal to increase the quality control over Kentucky’s high school diploma just got started in August, think again. Way back in February 2018 Kentucky Teacher ran, “Pruitt unveils five-point plan aimed at bolstering student achievement.” The article specifically…
End-of-Course requirement not always bad As I mentioned in a previous blog, the Kentucky Board of Education will consider adding some quality control measures to the state’s high school diploma, and the evidence shows it’s high time to do something better. However, we are recently hearing that one of the measures the board will consider,…
On Wednesday the Kentucky Board of Education considers a final rule for actual, enforceable standards for what it takes to earn a high school diploma in Kentucky. And, while there probably will never be a perfect answer to exactly what those requirements should be, recently released assessment and accountability results for 2017-18 reinforce the very…
Kentucky’s new assessment and accountability information was released to the public today, and one area of great interest involves the schools that were identified as lowest performing under the “Comprehensive Support and Improvement” (CSI) category. The issue to be addressed here is that not all of the new CSI schools are really equal. In fact,…
Drop is notable Is this fallout from Common Core? I am just starting to decode the rather different Excel spreadsheets that show the Kentucky assessment and accountability results for 2017-18, but something just jumped off the pages of an Excel about ACT scores that needs a quick note. One of the new Excels contains the…
Amount of social promotion to diploma still varies widely by student group The 2018 assessment and accountability data has now been released by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), and there are a huge number of changes. Many trend lines are now gone, including all of the high school end-of-course exam trends for English II…
And, which funding source provides the largest share of overall education dollars? I got prompted by a Twitter discussion to look at something that turned out to be a real surprise. It certainly didn’t work out the way those who fuss about Kentucky’s education funding would like us to believe. Very simply, when we look…