Education Research Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

KASB report that ranks Kansas 10th in nation an exercise in data manipulation 0
- Education
- August 15, 2022
The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) continues to take data manipulation to new levels in their just-released report Comparing Kansas 2022. KASB claims that “the most recent national data show Kansas ranks 10th in the nation on a weighted average of…measures that are part of the State Board of Education’s Kansans Can program and
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Teacher quality report gives low grades to Kansas teacher prep programs 0
- Education
- July 10, 2022
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released a report in May on the state of teacher preparation programs in teaching elementary math. Unfortunately, but not surprising, the collegiate institutions across the country, and those specific to Kansas, do not fare well in preparing individuals to teach math. NCTQ graded hundreds of higher education teacher
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KASB report is a misunderstanding of state assessment data 0
- Education
- May 29, 2022
An April 2022 report published by the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) entitled Understanding State Assessment Data, goes to great lengths to rationalize low and declining state assessment scores. The fifteen-page document can be divided into five categories of rationalizations that the unacceptably dismal state assessment scores are just fine: standards public vs. private
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National study’s evidence of structural segregation in public education also true in Kansas 0
- Education, Education Research
- November 28, 2021
Information from the Urban Institute, in a research project titled Dividing Lines, reveals how gerrymandering of attendance zones within school districts reinforces and perpetuates segregation along racial lines in public schools in urban areas across the country. The Urban Institute analyzed student populations in which there was a substantial difference in the racial make-up of adjoining
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Blue Valley high schools top Niche state rankings 0
- Education, Education Research
- October 15, 2021
The five Blue Valley high schools (USD 229) topped the latest public high school rankings from Niche. Blue Valley North earned the top spot, followed by Blue Valley High, Blue Valley West, Blue Valley Northwest and Blue Valley Southwest. On the private schools side, Wichita Collegiate is ranked number one followed by Bishop Seabury Academy
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Kids benefit from choice in other states, while Kansas resists efforts to help students 0
- Education Research
- May 5, 2021
While Indiana is busy expanding school choice eligibility from 37,000 to 48,000 students, Kansas is resisting even slight changes to existing school choice programs. What’s more, a Wall Street Journal editorial last week congratulated Indiana “for its leadership in establishing one of America’s most ambitious school voucher programs,” after the legislature expanded its primary schoolREAD MORE