Olympia Business Watch: States Struggling with Academic Standards
A couple of recent education reports continue to attract attention. Carrying the scintillating title, Mapping 2005 State Proficiency standard Onto the NAEP Scales, a report by the National Center of Education Statistics looks at how various state accountability tests (like our WASL) stack up against the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The crux: Not well.
The Official John Cox Campaign Blog: National Standards for Schools?
In a report released last Thursday by the Department of Education, the proof is freely available for everyone to that States Differ on School Standards.
The report found that most of the scores that would label a student proficient on state tests don’t yield that grade on the national tests.
We certainly don’t need National Standards. The NAEP test should continue and its results published. This should happen faster than it does now however. The test results just released from 2004-2005. These are almost 2 years behind since the 2006-2007 school year has just come to a close around the country. It should not take this long. This delay is the fault of the bureaucracies that lay between the actual tests and the parents and taxpayers.
Be-Think: States Satisfy No Child Law; Proficiency Standards Are Lowered
Days ago the news reports were filled with images and icons. Illusions and delusions were delivered to an expectant public. Paris Hilton appeared on every screen. Cable, network, and local stations covered her body and her burgeoning tensions. She is in jail. She is legally out of prison. The hotel heiress is partying at home or piteous in court. America was fixated. People pondered; wresting with facts and figures all pertaining to Paris.
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