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1998: Education Week Quality Counts '98 Report

1992

1996

Student Achievement

(NAEP scores out of 100%)

Proficient in science,
8th grade:

20%

Proficient in math,
8th grade:

16%

17%

URBAN CHALLENGE
Disadvantaged Schools
(NAEP scores out of 100%)
Below basic in reading, 4th grade:	79%
Below basic in math, 8th grade:	65%

	1997	1998
Standards and Assessments:	inc	C+

Quality of Teaching:	B-	C+

School Climate:	D-	F

Resources
Adequacy:	D-	F
Equity:	D	?
Allocation:	C-	D

2001 California Report card (with changed standards -- is that why Davis keeps saying he raised test scores?)

California Report Card

Student Achievement

(NAEP)

4th graders "proficient"
in reading (1998)

20%

8th graders "proficient"
in reading (1998)

22%

8th graders "proficient"
in writing (1998)

20%

4th graders "proficient"
in math (1996)

11%

8th graders "proficient"
in math (1996)

17%

8th graders "proficient"
in science (1996)

20%

Standards & Accountability *

B

Improving
Teacher Quality *

C-

School Climate

Resources:
Adequacy

D-

Resources:
Equity *

C+

COMMENT: Lawmakers last spring approved almost $1 billion worth of rewards and other funding tied to test results, including bonuses for teachers and merit scholarships for students. But some wonder about ranking and rewarding schools based solely on a norm-referenced test. California hopes to center its accountability system around tests that better match its standards as early as 2003. Meanwhile, the legislature pressed ahead with efforts to recruit and keep teachers.

NOTES: *Some state grades changed this year because of changes in the methodology. For details, see "State of the States." California did not receive a grade for school climate because the state has dramatically reduced class size, but the data do not reflect it.

These results cannot be compared easily because of the change in methodology. Even if there weren't the change in methods, the improvement(?) is scant.

What speaks volumes for these 'studies' is that we are into April of 2002 and the 1999 and 2000(Gray's 1st 2 years) reports aren't available(or I can't find them). On Wall Street, if your quarterly report isn't out by the end of month following, your stock takes a dive.

The public school system with its 'lag of accountability' technically has a 'lack of accountability'.

Enron stinks and in 18 months the WORLD knows and it is gone, the government education system stinks, and the WORLD knows, and it is grown.

What kills me about these scores is that ONLY ONE IN EVERY FIVE STUDENTS is "proficient" at their grade level.

One in five!

That's what we're getting for over $9,000 a year? I pay $3300 a year for my kids to go to a PRIVATE school and their proficiency rating last year (they are taking the SAT test next week) was 86%.

Of course, in my kids school they talk about God, discipline kids when disruptive, and teach character education.