Kentucky Ranks 29th, Earns a C on State Report Card
This from
Education Week:
After a one-year hiatus from issuing state grades, the 19th annual edition of Quality Counts—Preparing to Launch: Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown—resumes Education Week’s
long-standing tradition of grading the states on their performance.
This year, those grades return in a newer, leaner form that focuses on
outcomes rather than on policy and processes. A state’s overall grade is
the average of its scores on the three separate indices tracked by the
report.
This year, Kentucky finishes 29th among the 50 states and District
of Columbia, with an overall score of 73 out of 100 points and a grade
of C. The nation as a whole posts a grade of C.
Diving into the findings for the three graded indices, Kentucky
earns a C in the Chance-for-Success category and ranks 35th. The average
state earns a C-plus. In School Finance, Kentucky receives a C and
ranks 26th, while for the K-12 Achievement Index it finishes 19th with a
grade of C-minus. The average state earns grades of C and C-minus in
School Finance and K-12 Achievement, respectively.
Quality Counts 2015 also focuses on early-childhood
education as its special theme, examining how new academic demands and
accountability pressures are altering the learning environment for young
children and the educators serving them. For this year’s report, the Education Week
Research Center issued state and national grades for a new Early
Education Index, which draws on an original analysis of participation in
early-education programs, poverty-based gaps in enrollment, and trends
over time.
Kentucky earns a C-minus and ranks 26th on the Early Education
Index, which incorporates data from eight specific indicators. The
nation as a whole earns a D-plus.
Kentucky’s 2014 Highlights Report includes the state’s full report card, including results for each of the nearly-40 indicators that make up Quality Counts’ overall grading rubric. This year’s State Highlights Report also includes the Early Education Index and a special analysis of data on enrollment in early-childhood programs.
2 comments:
No real surprises here. Test prep. Test prep. Test prep. Test prep. When you simply test prep nobody wins. That is how it works in the public schools .....it is test prep, test prep. Students no longer have enough time to teach the real content for mastery.
Here we go with all of these contrived measurements that don't mean a darn thing. Just more misinformation to empower the next generation of "educational leaders" to beat teachers down some more and justify their own new and improved magic bullet to school improvement. We have sold out the soul of teaching to false promises and unattainable expectations of corporate education shiesters who use mumbo jumbo formulas and numeric smoke and mirrors to pretend to measure value, learning and teaching.
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