We've Totally Caught Up To Finland
This is just unbuckingfelievable. H/t to Mike Klonsky.
It's such an obvious shell game, and yet they get away with it all the time.
Two things:
1. Drop-out rates and graduation rates are a thing shrouded in eternal, purposeful mystery. According to Matt Farmer, and it bears out here, the 88 Collins graduates in 2011 represent two-thirds of the number of 9th graders enrolled in 2007. That's a graduation rate of 66%. Fully a third of the kids vanished. Yet if you go to the AYP data on the Illinois Interactive thing from NIU, they're posting a graduation rate of 80%.
It's such an obvious shell game, and yet they get away with it all the time.
Two things:
1. Drop-out rates and graduation rates are a thing shrouded in eternal, purposeful mystery. According to Matt Farmer, and it bears out here, the 88 Collins graduates in 2011 represent two-thirds of the number of 9th graders enrolled in 2007. That's a graduation rate of 66%. Fully a third of the kids vanished. Yet if you go to the AYP data on the Illinois Interactive thing from NIU, they're posting a graduation rate of 80%.
