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Haywood County Schools don’t like AYP, either.
I flaunt my ignorance for believing everything I read in newspapers. The NCLB acronym stands for “Adequate Yearly Progress.” Perhaps the widespread erroneous references to “Annual Yearly Progress” are instigated…
Two weeks ago, I outlined my objections to the NC Senate majority’s plan to reduce class sizes in grades K-3. The following details why: Recent studies of class sizes in…
Recently, I examined Jeffrey B. Maples’ 2009 dissertation, “An Analysis of the Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Selected Middle Schools in the Sandhills Region of North Carolina.”…
According to data released today, 85 out of 97 charter schools (88 percent) made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) under the federal No Child Left Behind law. To make AYP, all…
According to my preliminary analysis of state testing data, charter schools performed better than district schools on all but one measure. Performance Composite* (Definition: The percentage of the test scores…
It’s interesting to watch education officials around the Triangle try to explain the dismal No Child Left Behind test scores that were released last week. In Durham County, they’re simply…
Some additional bits of information: ? Only 44.7 percent of schools made Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind. The remaining 55.3 percent had one or more subgroups (race,…
I’d love to see a reporter go back and compare all the doom and gloom predictions made by Orange County school officials during budget negotiations with what actually has occurred.…
The state Department of Public Instuction has dripped out more data on test scores, this time the Adequate Yearly Progress metrics. Most interesting, other than the numbers are hard to…
A University of Vermont professor argues that No Child Left Behind’s school evaluation model (Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP) should be suspended until “its merits can be confirmed or refuted…