What you probably never heard before A disturbing thing happened over time to Kentucky’s black students in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 8 Math assessments. It’s not a happy story, but it sure is enlightening. Way back in 1990, the NAEP conducted its first ever state assessment. The lone subject evaluated was…
Since 2009 the Jefferson County Public School District (JCPS) has participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ (NAEP) Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA). That allows us to look at the white minus black achievement gaps in JCPS with a more established and reliable test than Kentucky’s home-grown KPREP. Here is a quick summary of…
I wrote yesterday about the superior performance of black students in Atlanta’s charter schools on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), but that wasn’t a total surprise because Atlanta’s charters had done well on the 2015 NAEP, too. But, this year there is a new charter school performance story, and it comes from…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from late winter 2017 testing have finally been released, and one of the more interesting findings is how black charter school students in the Atlanta, Georgia school system compare to blacks attending traditional public schools in that city. This table, which shows data extracted from the NAEP…
In other words, Kentucky’s students need a sage on the stage, not a guide on the side If anything, Kentucky’s rather abysmal performance in math on the newly released NAEP math assessments shows the state needs to move in a different direction for math instruction. The Progressive Education fad ideas we’ve tried since KERA came…
Without question, one of the more unpleasant surprises for me as I uncase the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results is the disturbing picture for the state’s largest racial group, its white students. Math has been the Bluegrass State’s most challenging performance area on the NAEP for years, and Grade 8 math has…
We were surprised to learn that one day before the now famous Senate effort to quietly undermine Kentucky’s Open Records Law by redefining the term “public record” to exclude “emails, texts or calls on devices paid for entirely with private funds and which do not involve government email accounts,” efforts were underway in the House…
Without question, one of the more unpleasant surprises for me as I uncase the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results is the disturbing picture for the state’s largest racial group, its white students. Let’s look at Eighth grade NAEP reading in the Bluegrass State. In 2015 as this graphic assembled with the NAEP…
Without question, one of the more unpleasant surprises for me as I uncase the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results is the disturbing picture for the state’s largest racial group, its white students. Math has been the Bluegrass State’s most challenging performance area on the NAEP for years, though problems have been more…
The April 17, 2018 special meeting of the Kentucky Board of Education that culminated in the resignation of Commissioner Stephen Pruitt was marred by several open meetings violations. It was not an auspicious beginning for the board’s “different direction.” Some of the violations were indisputable, like the board’s failure to vote on the motion to…