Public Education
New York teachers claim schools force them to pass failing students(Daily Caller News Foundation) â Teachers are accusing higher-ups at New York Cityâs Flushing High School are forcing them to pass students who are failing math classes. Educators at the… Read More
Public Education
College students fail basic math, English skills thanks to grade inflationAmerican college students canât solve basic math problems or write grammatical sentences, forcing some students to enroll in college classes that teach elementary-school concepts, according to a… Read More
Culture
Harvard report: âEasy Aâ at one of most prestigious colleges shouldnât be the standardThe grade system at Harvard University is âfailing to perform the key functions of gradingâ and âdamaging the academic culture of the College,â according to a new 25-page internal report. Read More
Public Education
TX takes over Fort Worth schools after persistent low test scoresTexas is taking over management of the Fort Worth Independent School District â the stateâs 10th largest school system â after most of its students continued to score below grade… Read More
Public Education
Majority of teachers disapprove of âequitableâ grading practices that âenable laziness,â survey showsMost K-12 teachers are giving equitable grading practices an F, a recent survey discovered. Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, explains equitable grading policies were invented by those who… Read More
Public Education
Texas releases school accountability data suppressed during 2-year legal battleÂIn a win for school accountability, Texas finally published its 2022-23 school district grades after the injunction preventing their release was lifted. The injunction was lifted April 3, nearly two… Read More
Christian Schools
Christian schools in Kansas outperform similarly-sized public schools once againKansasâ Christian schools are performing better in reading and math than even the best public schools on average. David Dorsey, senior education policy fellow at the Kansas Policy Institute,… Read More
Public Education
Analyst: Illinois students poor SAT showing a bad sign for future(The Center Square) â Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski is warning what falling Illinois state test scores could spell for the state moving forward. Data recently analyzed by the Illinois State… Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: Chicago Mayor Johnson personifies the main problem of public educationChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just demonstrated the primary problem with public education in 10 words. In an interview with The Economic Club of Chicago, Johnson was… Read More
Public Education
Atlanta Public Schools wonât give grades below a 50, and even the teachersâ union isnât happy about itThe Atlanta, Georgia school district is no longer giving grades less than 50%, even if no work is submitted. Teachers in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) are being directed to give… Read More
Public Education
Wyoming gets bad grade for education freedom(The Center Square) â Wyoming got a bad overall grade in a new report on education freedom. The Cowboy State received a “D” overall grade in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s… Read More
Public Education
Tests: Minnesota student grades down since 2019(The Center Square) â The Minnesota Department of Education released the 2023 statewide assessment results showing some scores dropped 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The 2023 North… Read More
Public Education
Critics: Kansas City Public Schools exhibits âsoft bigotry of low expectationsâ in giving all students at least 40%, even on schoolwork not doneKansas City, Missouri Public Schools is epitomizing âthe soft bigotry of low expectationsâ by giving all students at least 40% credit on all tests and assignments â even ones that… Read More
Public Education
Kansas City Public Schools sets lowest grading level at 40%, no longer allowing âzeroesâ â even when no work is turned inZeroes are no longer allowed to be given to students in Kansas City Public Schools. The lowest score possible now is 40%, even if the student never completes or turns… Read More
Public Education
Michigan House votes to repeal right-to-work, reinstate prevailing wage, end A-F grading system(The Center Square) â The Michigan House on Tuesday voted to repeal right-to-work, reinstate the prevailing wage, and trash the stateâs A-F grading system for public schools. The Democrat-dominated House… Read More
Public Education
Bill aims to trash Michigan’s A-F school grading system(The Center Square) â After Michigan shuttered in-person learning at schools statewide during the pandemic, student learning suffered. Three years after the pandemic shutdowns began, critics say a new bill… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Kansas Department of Education takes ‘another lap on the grade inflation tour’(The Sentinel) â The Kansas Department of Education conducted a fifty-city âKansans Can Success Tourâ in 2021 that felt like high school pep rallies, with the announcement of record-setting… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Kansas publication aids and abets student achievement cover-up(The Sentinel) â Itâs bad enough that there are more high school students below grade level in Kansas than are proficient. But media aiding and abetting education officialsâ cover-up attempts… Read More