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Kentucky’s white to African-American performance gaps increase in most...
One of the more important tests taken by Kentucky’s public school students is the ACT’s PLAN test, which is given to all the state’s 10th grade students. Like the K-PREP test results for math and...
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New evidence: Kentucky’s education system improving very slowly, at best
The Kentucky Department of Education released the 2013-14 school term results from the ACT, Inc.’s EXPLORE and PLAN readiness tests. These tests, which are given to eighth and tenth graders,...
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More on Kentucky’s public education achievement gaps in 2014
I wrote several days ago about generally growing achievement gaps for Kentucky’s black students in the new 2014 Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (KPREP) testing. KPREP is...
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Kentucky’s true achievement gap problem: Part 3, More Serious Gaps in PLAN...
Kentucky’s public education system continues to face a number of problems, but one of the most serious problems involves the state’s chronic white minus black achievement gaps. We previously examined...
View ArticleWhere would you go to get advice about how to teach science?
The Courier-Journal ran an Op-Ed a couple of days ago about “Why teachers embrace Kentucky science standards.” It was written by a teacher from Boyd County. The article says “Boyd County serves as a...
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Latest on Common Core in Kentucky: college professors report entering college...
The Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) got a lot of bad news during its meeting on Wednesday, December 9, 2015. This news isn’t just bad for Kentucky. It has rather serious implications for the national...
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Bluegrass Institute report raises strong concerns about continued achievement...
For Immediate Release: Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – Legislators and educators made a promise more than a quarter-century ago when the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) was passed: In...
View ArticlePress conference for release of new BIPPS report on achievement gaps in...
The Bluegrass Institute released “Blacks Continue Falling Through Gaps: The 2016 Update” on Monday. Here’s the video of the press conference. The post Press conference for release of new BIPPS report...
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BIPPS’ report brought up in NAACP meeting with Jefferson County Schools...
WDRB reports that two days ago the NAACP put the Jefferson County Public School District (JCPS) on the hot seat for continuing minority achievement gaps and small, but excessively slow progress in...
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