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New @NAEP_NCES scores will be out by the end of October. For #TableauTuesday, here's a look at recent results for Alabama and other southeastern states. First, a look at proportion of students at basic, proficient and advanced versus below basic. #aledchat public.tableau.com/app/profile/al…
That dashboard allows you to choose any year's test, 2009 to 2019, by race and poverty status. The cutoff bar is at the Basic level.
"Proficient achievement level does not represent grade level proficiency as determined by other assessment standards." nces.ed.gov/nationsreportc…
"Proficient achievement level does not represent grade level proficiency as determined by other assessment standards." nces.ed.gov/nationsreportc…
In 2018, the Superintendents Roundtable published a paper "How High the Bar?" claiming NAEP proficiency was too high a bar. superintendentsforum.org/archives/2019-…
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Federal $ pay for special education & Title I programs, which help children with disabilities & children in poverty. In Alabama, that equals around $1 billion (with a "b") each year for the past 10 years--around 15% of the yearly total $ 1/ #aledchat al.com/news/2022/10/s…
Federal $ pay for special education & Title I programs, which help children with disabilities & children in poverty. In Alabama, that equals around $1 billion (with a "b") each year for the past 10 years--around 15% of the yearly total $ 1/ #aledchat al.com/news/2022/10/s…
Folks talk about dropping federal education dollars because they're tied to this or that, but the reality is that hundreds of thousands of Alabama's children will lose access to necessary services (special education, extra support) they need without those federal dollars.
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As a school finance geek, I believe we need to be clear about what dropping federal education dollars would mean and understand the responsibility that would shift to the states, particularly our state of Alabama. So let's go on a numbers tour....
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Alabama school history books have been hotly debated since the Civil War. Do you remember what books your school used? Have you ever wondered why they were picked?
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Of course, you don't remember school in 1868. After the Civil War, Republican officials rebuilt a statewide public education system. They opened schools to Black students and implemented standardized textbooks -- two choices, among others, that Alabama residents didn't like.
After Reconstruction collapsed, a new set of state officials saw standardized textbooks as useful. Among the first recommended under a new law was William Garrott Brown's 1900 History of Alabama. It framed the Civil War as being incited by "a man's duty to protect his property."
If you’ve followed me here any length of time, you know (I hope) that I do not take myself too seriously but I am unapologetically, insanely serious about public education. NAEP scores are out, Alabama is ranked last and I am lead to weigh in. This is a thread. 1/
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To be absolutely clear, nothing written hereafter should be construed as an excuse. Public education should and must work well for every student. No matter how you slice it, it does not. I’m one of the ones doing the work and the job is not getting done. That’s unacceptable. 2/
At the same time, I reject completely the notion that public education “sucks” or even the apocalyptic warnings that have sounded for many decades - you know “A Nation at Risk” and its predecessors and successors. Painting with a broad brush of condemnation is just foolish. 2/
