Test Scores

Sep.7

2010

Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History

Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the most expensive school ever constructed in U.S. history. To put the price in context, this city’s Staples sports and entertainment [...]

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Aug.23

2010

Wishful Thinking in the Garden State

The Washington Post’s Jay Matthews has called attention to a questionable study on the graduation rates of minority students in Newark, N.J. The report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males, claims that New Jersey is successfully closing the achievement gap between white and minority male students.

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Aug.20

2010

U.S. schools chief endorses release of teacher data

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says parents have a right to know how effective teachers are at raising student test scores. “What is there to hide?” he says. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children’s teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information [...]

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Aug.16

2010

Who’s teaching L.A.’s kids?

A Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back. The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world — the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeways where some have lost friends to the [...]

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Jul.6

2010

Almost 3,000 New Jersey seniors have yet to graduate after failing tests

Almost 3,000 high school seniors statewide did not graduate this June because they failed to pass a required state test or win their appeal to the state Department of Education. Information supplied by the state DOE on Thursday shows that 1,357 students did graduate through one of the special appeals processes announced in June. But [...]

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Apr.27

2010

N.J. diploma scam revealed by stunning new test results

Commentary When the State Board of Education elected to “reform,” not eliminate, the Special Review Assessment, or SRA, in 2009, I and others who opposed this backdoor route to a diploma were disappointed. The SRA was a running joke. About 13,000 disproportionately minority students annually were using it to graduate after failing one or both [...]

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Apr.27

2010

Early results show low pass rates on N.J. alternate high school exams

By Star-Ledger Staff The STAR-LEDGER TRENTON — A year after the state revamped its alternate high school graduation exam, just 10 percent of the students who took the language arts portion earlier this year passed, while 34 percent passed the math section, according to preliminary results from the state Department of Education.

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Apr.26

2010

Group forms Latino Parent Association

April 23, 2010 BY MAXIM ALMENAS Leonia Life Leonia — Some parents with children in the Leonia school district may not have a complete grasp of the English language, but they do recognize their children are scoring lower academically in comparison to students of other races.

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