Student Performance
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Education Reports
AERA: Online Credit Recovery and the Path to On-Time High School Graduation
There is limited evidence available on the effectiveness of online credit recovery in improving students’ long-term outcomes compared with traditional…
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Connecticut
Report: Even at CT’s Highest-Performing Districts, High School Grads Need Remedial Courses in College
State Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell said the report contains some “powerful” data, including a high school by high school rundown…
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Illinois
Study Reveals Similar Outcomes between Online, Face-to-Face Credit Recovery Programs in Chicago
As the use of online credit recovery options expands, researchers are increasingly investigating the advantages and disadvantages of such programs.
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Federal Education News
Census Bureau: Kids Who Participate in Extracurricular Activities Are More Engaged in School
Children’s lives are shaped by their experiences in school and in extracurricular activities—both of which are sources of learning, identity…
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Must-Reads
SAT and ACT Test Scores Show Majority of High School Grads Not Ready for College-Level Math
Scores on college admission tests for the Class of 2018 are sending warning signs about math achievement in the nation’s…
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Must-Reads
SAT Scores See Slight Increase, But Gaps Widen between Racial and Ethnic Groups
Students who graduated from high school this year had an average total SAT score of 1068, a slight increase over…
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Education Reports
REASON: Everything You Know about State Education Rankings Is Wrong
You probably think you know which states have the best and worst education systems in the country.
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Must-Reads
New ‘Redshirting’ Study Reveals That Boys Are Held Back More Than Girls
Academic “redshirting” — the practice of holding children back a year before they enter kindergarten — is most widely used…
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New Jersey
New Jersey State Test Scores Released: Majority of High School Students Do Not Pass Math at Any Level
Results for 2018 PARCC standardized test scores followed a trend of improvement for the past several years even while the…
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ACT Scores Show Many Oklahoma High School Graduates Not Prepared for College-Level Courses
Many of Oklahoma's 2018 high school graduates will struggle to pass first-year college courses based on their ACT scores.
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Must-Reads
Researchers Find Being Held Back in Middle School Significantly Increases Likelihood of Dropping Out in High School
The latest studies focus on Louisiana, New York City, and Florida. Each compares similar students, some who just barely earned…
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Illinois
Study: Failing PE or Art Lowers a Chicago Student’s GPA and May Prevent Them from Graduating
Students’ poor performance in those subjects is behind a troubling drop in grade point averages between eighth grade and ninth…
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Must-Reads
‘Kids Were Stupified’: Thousands of NYC Students Earn ‘Zeroes’ on Writing Portion of State Tests
A score of zero (out of 2 to 4 possible points per question) means a student wrote something “totally inaccurate,”…
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California
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The Real Story Behind California’s Latest School Test Scores
If the California Department of Education’s recent press release about the latest results of its annual standardized tests were graded…
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Indiana
Student Performance on Indiana State Tests Continues Downward Trend
“We’re really focused on what the state says is important for our kids to learn and our teachers teach that…
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Newswire
Collective Bargaining Reforms in Wisconsin Led to Improved Student Test Scores, Study Shows
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty released the first study to date that examines the relationship between Act 10,…
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Education Reform Opinion
MOSKOWITZ: Congratulations to Success Academy Scholars: Number One in New York State!
Success Academy — larger than 95% of districts in the United States and the seventh largest in New York State…
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Education Reform Opinion
MINNICH: Exploring the Relationships between Poverty and School Performance
When educators and the communities they serve know how much, or how little, students are learning during the year, they…
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California
California’s Stagnant Test Scores: 50% Proficient in English, 39% Proficient in Math
For the second year in a row, California students’ test scores have inched up so slowly that, by some estimates,…
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Must-Reads
Test Scores Show Fewer Than Half of WI Students Proficient in Reading and Math
That’s according to new results of students' performance on the 2017-'18 state-mandated tests, which reveal how children in public schools…
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Newswire
Just over 89% of Tennessee High School Students Graduated on Time Last School Year
Tennessee's graduation rate held steady year over year, maintaining the record rate of 89.1 percent that was recorded last school…
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Must-Reads
Once Ranked 6th in the World, U.S. Drops to 27th in Education and Health, Study Says
The study, conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, attempts to measure…
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Massachusetts
More Than 3,000 Boston High School Students Not on Track to Graduate on Time
The Boston City Council is holding a hearing tomorrow aimed at finding out how the district can get kids back…
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Kentucky
KY May Change High School Graduation Requirements after 40% Deemed Not Career or College Ready
In fact, though Kentucky has one of the highest graduation rates in the country, nearly 19,000 students in the class…
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New York
NYC Mayor Celebrates Test Score Gains Before Realizing Different Exams Make Them Not Comparable to Last Year
“We now have a school system that is steadily improving before our eyes,” he said in a statement.
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