NAEP

Welcome to the 'NAEP' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'NAEP'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “NAEP”

• Is Rhees Education Reform Ship Sinking ?

  
  The Washington Teacher — Authority: 508
  In todays Washington Examiner article,  Leah Fabel discusses Rhees  interference in a federal probe involving sex charges against her now fiance Kevin Johnson, former St. Hope administrator and now mayor of Sacramento. In this article, I am quoted as saying Rhees ship is sinking. Fabel also labels those who ...
  1 week ago

• We must re-imagine our school cultures and end the madness of high stakes testing / standards-based reform

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 566
  Greg Thompson in his post, “ The Landscape of Educational Culture ” has it right. We must re-imagine our schools and end the madness of high stakes testing as well as “standards-based” educational reform. He writes: We can’t have both. We can’t create a thriving, innovative, creative, vibrant learning ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Education Week

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 426
  Or, the WEWee for short. Essentially, the crap thats cluttering up my desktop that makes me go, "You know, thatd be great for the blog!" but that I secretly know Ill never actually get around to devoting an entire post to. The Budget Stinks : So I expected that the Caseload Forecast Council might say that there ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Gaining Speed as Fed Priority?

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 413
  With all of the talk about RttT, school turnarounds, and the like, we havent spent much time at all talking about core instructional issues.  As many schools continue to struggle reaching AYP and demonstrating the sort of student achievement we all expect (and that the federal law still demands), we just havent been ...
  3 weeks ago

• DOE Caught Cheating On Test Results

  
  Smart City Memphis — Authority: 418
  Before yesterday is dubbed "Black Tuesday" for the sobering announcement that Memphis City Schools is doing a dismal job educating our students, lets see it for what it is: a day to celebrate. We have a friend who says that Memphians love to pay people to lie to us - were doing great in economic development, downtown ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kentuckys Lowered CATS Standards Remained Relatively High

  
  Kentucky School News and Commentary — Authority: 425
  Over at Prichard, Susan Weston has been looking into the lowering of academic standards in Kentucky circa 2007. You will recall, that is the time Kentucky was switching from the old CATS to the new (and not improved) CATS - thanks largely to NCLBs strictures screwing up a fairly good (yet, far from perfect) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Norming NAEP Under Bush I

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  From Bill Wraga in the Athens Banner : In any organization, agency, or institution, public or private, there always is room for improvement. Such is the case with our public schools. But the National Assessment of Educational Progress performance levels cited in the Banner-Heralds Thursday editorial, "Schools may ...
  4 weeks ago

• Closing the Proficiency Gap By Lowering the Standards

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 126
  I am shocked, shocked I tell you that some states may be lowering performance standards in order to report that high percentages of their students have reached the proficient level. Education Week reports: With 2014 approaching as the deadline by which states must get their all their students up to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where basic is ‘proficient’

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 601
  To meet No Child Left Behind’s call for universal proficiency by 2014, some states have lowered standards, concludes a new report by the National Council for Education Statistics. In fourth-grade reading, 31 states consider students proficient who’d score below basic on the National Assessment of Education ...
  4 weeks ago

• Illusion of proficiency continues to shed its veil

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 597
  As Amy indicates , the latest findings from the just-released National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report contain few surprises, especially since we’re well-versed in the differences between states’ definitions of proficiency and proficiency as mapped onto a common scale (see here and here ). This ...
  4 weeks ago

• Not-so-great news in National Center for Education Statistics’s report

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 597
  The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is out with a new report today that looks at state achievement levels using the common yardstick of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Not great news. According to the AP story : It found that many states deemed children to be proficient or on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Millions and Millions of Minutes

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 413
  Its been used by education reformers and praised by the folks like Newt Gingrich.  Business leaders point to it as a sign of the looming "crisis" our education system may be facing.  Its been screened at policy events and cited in opinion pieces.  The "it," of course, is the movie 2 Million Minutes: The 21st ...
  4 weeks ago

• More Bad News for the Testocracy from NAEP

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  The new NAEP Math scores are ou t for 4th and 8th grades, and the news is not good, again, for the NCLB Testocracy. As the chart shows at left (click it to enlarge), gains for 4th graders before NCLB (from 2000 to 2003) are larger than all the gains in the six years of Hell since (from 2004 to 2009). For 8th ...
  5 weeks ago

• More Bad News for the Testocracy from NAEP

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  The new NAEP Math scores are ou t for 4th and 8th grades, and the news is not good, again, for the NCLB Testocracy. As the chart shows at left (click it to enlarge), gains for 4th graders before NCLB (from 2000 to 2003) are larger than all the gains in the six years of Hell since (from 2004 to 2009). For 8th ...
  5 weeks ago

Comments about NAEP