Kentucky was the first state in the nation to adopt the Common Core State Standards, doing so in February of 2010, nearly four months before the standards were even complete. Kentucky was also the first state to really force Common Core into its classrooms; it did so by initiating Common Core aligned testing in reading…
I wrote about this about three weeks ago, and now The federalist has picked up on the math professors’ revolt in Kentucky over the plan to drop all college remedial courses and put in a fanciful notion idea of “Co-Requisite Courses” as replacements. Imagine that, we will solve the college remedial course problem by dropping…
We’ve been looking at the new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for Kentucky for 2015. I thought it would be appropriate to update the graph below with this new data and use it to make some projections for the future. First, a few details about the graph above. It shows the “All Student”…
I wrote yesterday about how a correct analysis of the new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) shows that the white minus black achievement gaps in the school district really have remained essentially unchanged. That was no surprise to us, at least for the eighth graders. You see,…
Over the past two days I have been writing about the new results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). I have been stressing that the NAEP has a fair amount of statistical sampling error in all of its data, and that often turns what appear to be “wins” into nothing more than ties.…
There seems to be a slow learning curve in some sectors of our state and nation about the challenges of trying to compare NAEP data from state to state. That is definitely true with the Kentucky Department of Education’s somewhat misleading headline about the new NAEP results for 2015. The news release headline blares, “Kentucky…
Regular readers know that the 2015 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released yesterday, and I have already posted some initial blogs about the results. Some key points: • Kentucky’s NAEP performance in both math and reading in both the fourth and eighth grades is flat in 2015 compared to the…
I posted a first observations blog about the new 2015 NAEP scores for all Kentucky students earlier. In that post I only compared Kentucky’s scores between the years. Unfortunately, doing valid comparisons of Kentucky’s NAEP scores to those from other states isn’t so easy. For one thing, statistical sampling errors in NAEP turn many apparent…
The results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released this morning. This is going to be a challenging set of data to evaluate due to a number of factors I will be discussing in future blogs as the various issues come up. In any event, I know many are interested in…
Situation is much worse for black students Back in early September I introduced our readers to a new concept in high school graduation rate reporting for Kentucky that I dubbed the “Effective High School Graduation Rate.” My September 4, 2015 blog, “Kentucky’s Effective High School Graduation Rate,” provides a detailed explanation of this calculation, but…