{"id":2465,"date":"2015-10-16T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T21:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2015-10-16T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T21:34:44","slug":"is-the-new-hampshire-commissioner-of-ed-misleading-parents-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2015\/10\/16\/is-the-new-hampshire-commissioner-of-ed-misleading-parents-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the New Hampshire Commissioner of Ed Misleading Parents Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you click on the link below, you will find more praise for the Common Core Standards and assessments. However, are they telling us the truth? Are they misleading us again? Are they refusing to give us the facts? Are they incapable of providing critical information on the Common Core standards and assessments?
\nYou be the judge….<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q: What kind of change in results can states expect with higher standards and these new assessments?
\nA: As students have more years of instruction aligned to new standards, results typically improve. For example, in Kentucky, the first state to begin using the Common Core standards, student test scores went down at first. But, over the next four years as teachers and students worked to meet higher standards, the percentage of high school graduates meeting the state\u2019s benchmark for college and career readiness increased from 34 percent to 62 percent.<\/strong> There also have been impressive gains in ACT sores in Tennessee since adoption of more rigorous standards. And in California, where students have taken an early assessment of college readiness and participated in 12th grade courses to improve their preparation since 2007, the proportion of students needing remediation at the California State University has dropped from 56 percent to 43 percent.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/nh.portal.airast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smarter-Balanced-Achievement-Levels-QA.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n

Here is what Commissioner Barry left OUT of the propaganda ………<\/strong>
\nFROM THE Bluegrass Institute:
\nhttp:\/\/www.bipps.org\/kentucky-educations-shaky-statistics\/#more-14497<\/a><\/p>\n

Do Kentucky\u2019s schools deserve to be, \u201c\u2026congratulated for their continued progress on graduating more students with the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in the 21st century,\u201d as Interim Kentucky Commissioner of Education Kevin Brown claims?
\nSadly, Holliday and others are actually hitting on sour notes, using \u201capples to oranges\u201d comparisons in what they consistently mislabel as the state\u2019s \u201cCollege and Career Readiness\u201d rates. Aside from presenting numbers that are not comparable over the time period cited, a growing number of people think Kentucky Education\u2019s latest numbers themselves are a shaky.
\nFurthermore, when the college\/career ready numbers are tied to those graduation rate figures, it turns out that a gruesomely large proportion of our students are leaving high school with only a hollow piece of paper. Thousands being declared ready are not really getting the educations they need.
\nHow many kids are we talking about? Even if we accept both Kentucky Education\u2019s college\/career rates and graduation rate data as accurate, the Bluegrass Institute estimates that more than 40 percent of the students who started the ninth grade with the high school class of 2015 failed to leave school with an adequate preparation for life. Some of those who failed dropped out of high school, but many were socially promoted all the way to an empty diploma.<\/p>\n

BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS
\nhttp:\/\/www.bgdailynews.com\/news\/groups-question-school-standards\/article_2524e644-e523-5fd8-a9e6-04131fe36dd9.html<\/a>
\nFindings from two groups suggest the Kentucky Department of Education\u2019s standards for preparing students for college and adult life are lacking and that the department\u2019s statistics are misleading.<\/p>\n

Both the Bluegrass Institute and the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission\u2019s Office of Education Accountability recently released reports critical of KDE\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

KDE\u2019s willingness to put \u201cspin above substance\u201d makes its data misleading, said Jim Waters, president of the Bluegrass Institute. The institute \u201cworks with Kentuckians, grassroots organizations and business owners to advance freedom and prosperity by promoting free-market capitalism, smaller government and the defense of personal liberties,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have questions about whether we\u2019re really getting the needed information to really determine how Kentucky has performed in its college and career readiness arena,\u201d Waters said. \u201cHave these improvements actually occurred, or has the bar been lowered to give the appearance of improvements?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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