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Confusion, frustration and ignorance reign regarding state assessment cut scores at SBOE meeting 0
- Education
- July 25, 2022
At the July 2022 State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting board members confessed confusion, frustration and ignorance regarding the process of setting and understanding state assessment cut scores. This was manifested during a presentation by Dr. Neal Kingston of KU, the lead person hired by KSDE for state assessment work. Dr. Kingston was giving the
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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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Inflation-adjusted school funding +52%, teacher pay down 9%0
- Education
- May 12, 2022
Allegations of low teacher pay is used to urge legislators for more funding, but money is not the problem or the answer. (For the record, Kansas was #38 in 2019, but adjusted for the cost of living, Kansas was #15). Data from the National Center for Education Statistics, which come from local school districts, show
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More evidence of structural segregation in Kansas public schools 0
- Education
- May 7, 2022
Structural segregation is alive and well in the Kansas public school system, a form of educational redlining manifested and protected by a rigid set of school district boundaries. In a previous blog, I presented local economic data and student performance to show how it exists within the City of Topeka where there are four public
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Governor’s Commission on Racial Equality – a missed opportunity to address real education issues 0
- Education
- April 15, 2022
Only three of 90 recommendations made by the Governor’s Commission on Racial Equality concerned education and none addressed the issue of improving student achievement for students of color. A presentation at the State Board of Education March meeting illustrates what a missed opportunity the commission’s efforts were to expose real systemic racism when it comes
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