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Achievement
July 8, 2015 A reading score in Level 1 ”denotes limited command of knowledge and skills.” Level 2 ”denotes partial command of knowledge and skills.” None of the students on Level 1 and Level 2 “are prepared for the next grade.” They’ve failed. The quotes and the data are from the N.C. Department of Public Read More …
July 5, 2015 Above is the latest revision of an old chart. The message is always the same: Schools full of economically disadvantaged children record unacceptable levels of academic achievement. The reasons keep being debated. But the reality stays the same. Two similar charts using earlier datasets are here. They date from 2004 and 2008. Read More …
May 26, 2015 Demographer Jim Johnson from UNC Chapel Hill met with the Board of Education and walked them through a presentation he called “Disruptive Demographics and North Carolina’s Education Challenges.” The trends he identified are both national, state and local, and his presentation is lengthy and complex. It helped launch the school board’s examinination Read More …
May 5, 2015 Steve Crump, above left, led author Frye Gaillard and researcher Amy Hawn Nelson through an evening program devoted to the legacy of Swann v. Mecklenburg. That case challenged the 1960s pattern of racial segregation in student assignment in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decison in 1971 that Read More …
Sept. 8, 2012 Coding for the CMS videos from the August 2012 meeting that was originally embedded in this article has been moved to the bottom of this article. The old coding may no longer work on your computer. The CMS Board of Education had an interesting discussion in August in connection with preliminary results Read More …
Sept. 20, 2009 Richard Rothstein, author of “Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White-Achievement Gap,” responding to his critics in a report, “Schools and the Achievement Gap: A Symposium,” published by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, September-October, 2004. “… In the long run, effective public policy cannot Read More …
June 25, 2009 Chart based on preliminary EOG scores tracks various manifestations of the achievement gap.
May 24, 2009 A Queens University of Charlotte study dated April 2009 ranked graduation rates at UNC for graduates of CMS high schools. The original link to the study has been broken. The study was published in three parts: an Executive Summary, Part One and Part Two.
May 1, 2009 Today’s article from the N.C. Justice Center is a republication of a Legislative Bulletin from April 7 noting an increase in the percentage of students failing end-of-grade reading and math tests between 2001 and 2007-8. The article urges stronger intervention. Posting of this article prompted reader S.S. to write: “While I certainly agree with Read More …
April 22, 2009 Today’s study on “Why High-Stakes Accountability Sounds Good But Doesn’t Work” argues that sanctions under No Child Left Behind are tied to failures to achieve what are really some fairly low expectations. With such low expectations in play – the bar set rather low – the study argues that schools will learn to Read More …