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Their solution is that you must read at a 3rd grade level in order to get promoted to 4th grade. It brought them from basically the worst State to the 30th perc
by swaits 7mo ago
Their solution is that you must read at a 3rd grade level in order to get promoted to 4th grade. It brought them from basically the worst State to the 30th percentile in reading for 4th graders.
So, common sense? If you’re requiring proficiency in order to promote, then I’d expect to see significantly better results than this.
It’s noteworthy that they’re still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math. Might take some time for these literate 4th graders to get up to 8th grade age.
I don’t think Alabama is a model for anything related to public education.
- b40d-48b2-979e 7mo agoIt's also noteworthy that they have some of the most impoverished populations in their schools in the entire country.
- swaits 7mo agoYes, indeed. I should’ve mentioned that in my comment.
- NietzscheanNull 7mo ago> still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math. Doesn't that stand to reason? The changes described in this article have been in place for less than six years, so the earliest grade cohorts haven't yet made it to 8th grade! In my opinion, it's very encouraging to see Alabama making the strides they've made so far.
- swaits 7mo agoYes. I realized I should’ve clarified that and edited it into my comment in parallel with your comment.
- HanShotFirst 7mo agoI expected to see that in the article, but it's not mentioned at all.
- CGMthrowaway 7mo ago>Their solution is that you must read at a 3rd grade level in order to get promoted to 4th grade Can someone explain why we ever stopped doing that? It does seem like a lot of public school advocates these days push simply for graduate rate, to the exclusion of meeting common sense aptitude standards. To the point where it is having a downstream effect on universities having to tie up an unreasonable amount of resources on remedial education
- kotaKat 7mo ago“No child left behind”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
- CGMthrowaway 7mo agoCan you elaborate? The wiki says NCLB is "outcomes based education" which is further defined as "By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal." You seem to be suggesting it's the opposite though?
- sidewndr46 7mo agoIf you redefine the goal to be "complete the educational system in a normal manner" and then pass everyone each year you have implemented outcomes based education. The outcome is that everyone is that each individual completes an education. What good it is remains to be seen.
- CGMthrowaway 7mo agoSo the idea behind NCLB is to lower the standards until everyone passes?
- smileysteve 7mo agoIt's metric chasing; If the metric is everyone passes, then you either taught really well or lowered the standard.