Bluegrass Institute staff education analyst Richard Innes in an op-ed in Thursday’s Louisville Courier-Journal writes in favor of the state intervening in the Jefferson County Public Schools. “The JCPS system needs major work, but after a quarter-century of KERA, the district hasn’t proven capable of meeting the challenge on its own,” Innes writes. ” ……
When I first started looking at education research back in 1994, I saw all sorts of educators’ claims that they really understood how children learned. It didn’t take long to develop a rather strong, though subjectively based, opinion that there actually seemed to be remarkably little scientifically-based research to support claims about the many education…
On May 8, 2018 the Jefferson County Board of Education heard a briefing about how their district performed on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) participated in the Trial Urban District Assessment part of the NAEP. The board heard only part of the story, however. The presenters played…
“I agree…..I Remember even before I retired in 2016….when I tried to have students “discover” ….they just looked at me exhausted and said…”just tell us, we want to know what the right answer is…you know more than we do” (the way colleges prepare teachers now I wonder if that’s true …when I had student teachers…
I started this series several months ago with “Why do our schools consistently avoid the most successful teaching approach of all?” Today I add the fourth blog to the series, and the inspiration comes, shock of shocks, from the far from conservative The Atlantic, proving once again that education isn’t a liberal or conservative issue.…
About two and a half months ago, I wrote about “Why do our schools consistently avoid the most successful teaching approach of all?” That blog discussed the mystery behind Kentucky’s public schools consistently avoiding the most successfully researched approach to education, a program called Direct Instruction, which firmly plants teachers as a “Sage on the…
Here are Dr. Lewis’ initial comments:
With the conversation elevating over the announcement today that Interim Commissioner of Education Dr. Wayne Lewis is recommending that the state board of education take over the Jefferson County Public School System (JCPS), a little review about another state takeover of a chronically failing school district seems in order. Kentucky took over the Floyd County…
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 30, 2018 (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) –– The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s first and only free-market think tank, has been bringing much-needed sunshine to the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) for many years now. JCPS has been mismanaged for decades and the achievement gap continues to widen. Since the…
More news you didn’t know I wrote yesterday about the highly disappointing decay for Kentucky’s black student scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 8 math exam. I have now taken time to look at what happened between the earliest and latest NAEP state administrations for Grade 4 math, and the picture…