According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school year.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced its findings this week that the percentage of students school leaders estimated to be behind where they should be was down 7% from the 2022-23 school year but still 8% higher than before the pandemic.
Was that not the plan?
ReplyDeleteOne more example of why the DoE needs to go! Wish we could also get rid of or at least diminish the power of teacher's unions.
ReplyDeleteAnd those of course are numbers from people who also are way behind grade level and only got jobs because of either the color of their skin or what is, real or not, in their pants.
ReplyDeleteThose are also the people whose student loans Joe BiteMe wants to forgive.
DeleteFunny how that works, isn't it?
Homeschool.
ReplyDeleteWell, they had to lower the bar when they brought in the Amish.
ReplyDeleteI'll put my bet on the Amish 8th grader vs. your public school 12th grader.
DeleteSo just under half of students are below average? I think that’s how the math works.
ReplyDelete"Behind grade level" - different from saying "behind the rest of the class".
DeleteNo, 40% aren't even to the minimum standard for the grade level. In other words, they failed one or more subjects the previous year but were advanced to the a higher grade anyway.
DeleteONLY 40% of them below grade level? In my state, the local high school was placed on a special list of schools in the lowest 25% in achievement. YET the superintendent and principal boast of a 90% graduation rate. QUESTION: Are the diplomas worth the paper they're printed on?
ReplyDeleteAnd in Mass. - they've just ditched the statewide "MCAS" testing. Teachers and students didn't want to be held to standards.
Yes, by all means, ditch the federal Department of Education.
ReplyDeleteBe beware, your state - yes, even your deep-red state in the Bible belt - has a state version of the Department of Education that's pretty much bought into the same wokeness and lowered expectations that the feds push. Because they got their Ed.D. and M.Ed. degrees at the same woke colleges as the fed-u-crats. And your local school committee members probably buy into the same things, or at a minimum, they're of the sappy mindset that "oooooh, our schools need MORE funding!.... oooooh, teachers are so underpaid!"
Our schools and standards were much better before Carter created the Department of Education. A bureaucracy is never a good thing.
DeleteIts because of all the illegal immigrants who can't speak english.
ReplyDeleteWait...they ask the school leaders?? LOL. HOMESCHOOL.
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