"No Child Left Behind Obama Style" - Michigan test scores reveal a country in steep decline.(TT).Racial gaps in Michigan exam results a concern.Michigan educators have spent years trying to address the persistent gap in achievement between white and minority students, but Michigan Merit Exam results released Thursday provided troubling news: The gap keeps widening.
“Results in Detroit Public Schools were grimmer. Just 205 students — or 6% of the 3,418 who took the math exam — passed. In science, 104 students — or 3% of the 3,477 students who took the exam, passed. Only 1.8% DPS students were deemed college ready. “
The State Board of Education and the Michigan
Department of Education recently set closing the achievement gap — the
difference in percentage of students passing the exam — as a key goal for the
2012-13 school year.
The gaps, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said
in a statement, are “shameful.”
“We need to end this disparity in education, and
we need to do this together as a state,” Flanagan said.
Overall, Thursday’s release of MME results was
mixed. Average ACT scores are up. So is the percentage of students considered
college-ready. But students struggled against a higher standard for passing the
exams, with only about a quarter of them passing in math and science.
The achievement gap between white and black
students widened in reading, math, science and writing on the MME, and narrowed
in only social studies. The gap between white and Hispanic students widened in
math and science, but narrowed in other subjects.
The gap also widened for both groups in the
percentage of students considered college-ready.
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools leaders have
worked for several years to address the achievement gap.
“We are very concerned about (the gaps),” said
Jeanne Farina, assistant superintendent for instructional services. District and
building equity teams are looking at the gaps, she said, “and digging deep into
the data to find out where did they start to fail and what we can do about
it.”
More Details: EXAM HIGHLIGHTS
• At nearly 80 schools statewide, none of the students was considered college-ready. That includes 11 charter schools, 31 alternative schools and 36 traditional, comprehensive high schools. Sixteen Detroit Public Schools had no college-ready students.
• Only six schools in the state had more than half their students considered college-ready.
If America doesn’t turn around (like repeal healthcare, shun statist socialism and get back to liberty, freedom and business) it’s future is here.Hmmmm......Now if he follows the 'example of his BFF Erdogan he could start 'Religious Imam Hatip schools' the level is 'easier'.In Turkey, only 27 percent of the adult population has a complete secondary school education, compared with 65 percent in the EU, 74 percent in Korea, 82 percent in Poland, and 87 percent in the US.Read the full story here.
More Details: EXAM HIGHLIGHTS
• At nearly 80 schools statewide, none of the students was considered college-ready. That includes 11 charter schools, 31 alternative schools and 36 traditional, comprehensive high schools. Sixteen Detroit Public Schools had no college-ready students.
• Only six schools in the state had more than half their students considered college-ready.
If America doesn’t turn around (like repeal healthcare, shun statist socialism and get back to liberty, freedom and business) it’s future is here.Hmmmm......Now if he follows the 'example of his BFF Erdogan he could start 'Religious Imam Hatip schools' the level is 'easier'.In Turkey, only 27 percent of the adult population has a complete secondary school education, compared with 65 percent in the EU, 74 percent in Korea, 82 percent in Poland, and 87 percent in the US.Read the full story here.
huh... wasn't no child left behind started by bush? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
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