Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report (CA Dept of Education)

Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report (CA Dept of Education):

Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report

Report to the Legislature: Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Model as Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d).

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California Department of Education

Report to the Governor and Legislature:

Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Model
as Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d)

Executive Summary

This report is required by California Education Code (EC) Section 52052.5(d) that states the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) Advisory Committee, shall make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on the establishment of an individual academic performance growth model by utilizing individual pupil results from a longitudinally valid achievement assessment system. These recommendations are due to the Legislature and the Governor by July 1, 2013.

When the Academic Performance Index (API) was designed in 1999, it did not include a student growth component. At the time, the California Department of Education (CDE) did not have the capacity to link the test results of individual students across years. In addition, the testing system was not designed to provide growth scores to students. Although the CDE now has the ability to link student scores from one year to the next through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, neither the 1999 state standards nor the current assessment system (Standardized Testing and Reporting) provide a clear vertical articulation from grade to grade.

In 2003, EC Section 52052.5(d) required the PSAA Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the SSPI on the "appropriateness and feasibility of a methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance" based on individual student results.

This report recommends that implementation of a growth model be delayed until the statewide assessment system is reauthorized and new assessments based on the Common Core State Standards are fully implemented.

If you have any questions regarding this report, please contact Jenny Singh, Administrator, Academic Accountability Unit, by phone at 916-319-0437 or by e-mail at jsingh@cde.ca.gov.

You can find this report at the CDE API Web page. If you need a copy of this report, please contact Betty Miura, Research Analyst, Academic Accountability Unit, by phone at 916-319-0863 or by e-mail at bmiura@cde.ca.gov.

Questions:   Analysis, Measurement, and Accountability Reporting Division | 916-319-0896

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors | Business Wire

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors | Business Wire:

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors

Tom Murray, Katrina Stevens, Susan Bearden, Sharon Plante Join Academy Council of Peers

November 26, 2013 02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, comprised of 225 influential education leaders and organizations, announced that Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (NEA); Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and Tom de Boor, founder of AOL’s education, kids and parenting channels, have joined the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors. They join a cadre of other prominent leaders committed to education, including Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Diane Ravitch, John Merrow, Linda Darling-Hammond, Daniel Pink and Timothy Shriver as the voting members of the Academy who will help select the Bammy Awards honorees for 2014.

Additionally, several new members have accepted invitations to join the Academy Council of Peers. They include Tom Murray, Director of Technology and Cyber Education for the Quakertown Community School District in Bucks County, PA; Katrina Stevens, a former teacher, administrator, and education consultant with the Tuscany Group; Sharon Plante, Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport High School in Southport, CT; Alex J. Podchaski, Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ; Susan M. Bearden, Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, FL. Bammy Award honorees automatically admitted to the Academy Council of Peers include Jesse Hagopian, Marilyn Rhames, Pam Moran, Tony Sinanis and James Ewing.

The Bammy Awards were created in response to the relentless national criticism of America's public schools while all that is right in American education is largely ignored.

Underscoring the notion that it takes a village to educate a child, the Academy identifies, recognizes and celebrates the contributions of education professionals, para-professionals and support staff across the entire field -- from teachers, principals and superintendents to school nurses, advocates, researchers, early childhood specialists, facilities maintenance staff, special needs professionals, school board members, parents and more.

About the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences

Members of the Academy include a profoundly eclectic cadre of persons involved in education, including the executive directors of NAESP, AASA, PTA, ASBO, ISTE, COSN and NASSP.

To learn more about the Bammy Awards 3.i, go to www.bammyawards.org. Send emails to info@bammyawards.org, or call 818-539-5971.

Contacts

Academy of Education Arts and Sciences
Jeannette Berbstein, 818-539-5971

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform:

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education?

Posted on November 26, 2013by Ken Previti

How important are the arts in the education of your child?
Here are three revealing quotations.

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgment. The artist… faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.”
- John F. Kennedy (Read HERE.)

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who – all of a sudden – their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as 

Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core

Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core:

Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core

This is Part I of a Two Part Article

How The Common Core Developed

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 education were adopted by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) in the Spring of 2010. Those standards had not yet been written at the time, so they actually were adopted sight unseen. The CCSS were an initiative by the National Governors' Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to standardize the teaching of English language arts and mathematics and later science and social studies for all states. The goal of the NGA and CCSSO was to modernize the teaching of those basic skills areas to raise the level of achievement of American students to a higher world class ranking and to make American students more competitive for the world job market.

There were no public hearings explaining the contents of the CCSS before their adoption. There was really nothing to share with the public at that time except that the standards were intended to be state of the art learning with emphasis on rigor and critical thinking skills for our students. From the very beginning, the push for the new standards did not come from parents or even from classroom teachers.  It came from non-classrom teacher elites who believed they had the answer to improving U.S. student performance compared to other countries.

The driving force for the development of the CCSS came from the National Governor's Association with heavy influence from the Hunt Institute and philanthropic organizations such as the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and a group called Achieve. (Thank you to Dr. Mercedes Schneider for finding the news storiesexplaining the involvement of these groups in proposing this standards effort.) The Obama administration as represented by Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan bought into the project from the very beginning. In June, 2009 Duncan announced that 350 

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice

Filed under: Civil Rights Movement Today,Public Education — millerlf @ 2:22 pm 

In North Carolina, Republicans took the General Assembly in 2010 and the governorship in 2012. The takeover received unprecedented support from one right-wing multimillionaire, Art Pope — who, according to progressive publication, The American Prospect, singlehandedly provided about 80 percent of the funding for the state’s conservative groups.

Upon taking control, the Republicans began systematically dismantling the social infrastructure of the state. They slashed taxes on the top 5 percent and raised them on the bottom 95 percent. They eliminated the earned-income tax credit for 900,000 low-wage workers. They cut Medicaid coverage for 500,000. They ended unemployment benefits for 170,000. They threw about 30,000 kids out of pre-K, while transferring $90 million from public schools to vouchers. They voted to allow guns purchased without a background check to be carried in parks, restaurant and bars.

As the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, put it: “They’ve drank all the Tea Party they could drink and sniffed all the Koch that they could sniff.”

In one “omnibus bill,” the legislature would create restrictive voter ID procedures that will disqualify estimated 318,000-registered voters. 

Pope Francis calls unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny”

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters:

Private Education Management Organizations Running Public Schools Expand –

44 Percent of Charter School Students in 2011-12 Attended Schools Operated by EMOs

New report shows 908,000 students in 2011-2012 attended privately-managed schools in 35 states plus D.C. – a major increase from 733,000 enrolled a year earlier. Michigan (204 schools) Florida (177), Ohio (110) and Arizona (108) have the most privately-managed schools.

An increasing number of for-profit education management organizations are expanding into online teaching.

BOULDER, CO – Across the nation, schools managed by for-profit firms such as K12 Inc, National Heritage Academies and Charter Schools USA, as well as nonprofit education management organizations (EMOs) such as KIPP, continue to increase the number of students they enroll, despite a scarcity of evidence showing positive results. Students across 35 states and the District of Columbia now attend schools managed by these non-

Parents' Message to de Blasio #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

Parents' Message to de Blasio

Parents & students send a heartfelt message to the Mayor-Elect about high-stakes tests and the next NYC schools chancellor. Go to http://www.parentvoicesny.org to let de Blasio know you support this message too.

11-26-13 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:

Charter Schools Are About Business, Not Education

From NEPC:NEPC report finds 44% of charter school students in 2011-12 attended schools operated by EMOs
Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net
Jamie Horwitz, (202) 549-4921, jhdcpr@starpower.net
Gary Miron, (269) 599-7965, garmiron@gmail.comURL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/nzhgjupBOULDER, CO (November 26, 2013) – A new National Education Policy Center report pu

by Jim Horn / 45min 

 

11-25-13 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: Privatized Custodial Services Bring Corporate Windfalls and Dirty Schools to MemphisSince school fragmentation consolidation went into effect in Shelby County (Memphis) Schools, the lawyers in charge of SCS have been trying to save every dime they can to pay for the $212 million dollar donut hole created to pay for corporate welfare charter reform schools for the urban poor. Part o

by mike simpson / 21min 

11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of Action

11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of Action:

 mark as read

11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of Action

November 26, 2013 Subscribe THIS WEEK:Record Number Of Homeless Students … Preschool Done Right … Following Common Core Money … Charters Undermine Public Education … Student Loans As Profit Center TOP STORY Dec. 9 Declared Day Of Action To Reclaim The Promise Of Public Education By Jeff Bryant “Americans everywhere are seeing their local schools being ground into pieces between the twin political augers of government austerity and top-down, corporate-backed ‘reform’ … An increasingly vocal opposition to this status quo has announced a December 9th National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promis

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Dec. 9 Declared Day Of Action To Reclaim The Promise Of Public Education

“Public education is under attack,” comes the warning from Philadelphia in a riveting new video from community and youth organizers in that city. Their accusations are that education policies are “an attack on poor children” … policy makers “don’t care about the students” … public education “is being defunded” … and “it’s not something specific to Philadelphia.” Indeed, Philadelphia “is an early warning sign for America,” a former science teacher wrote recently at the progressive news site PolicyMic. Chronically low per-pupil spending – “behind suburban districts” – combined with a “powerful c

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Charter Schools For Scandals

There are undoubtedly wonderful charter schools in existence, and Americans generally have a favorable opinion of charters, but hardly a week goes by without news of a scandal or a study tarnishing their image. With schools reopening everywhere across the country, the past week was no exception in exposing new problems with an idea that was once thought of as a collaborative endeavor between teacher unions and school administrators aimed at serving struggling students, but has now become a heavily funded, well-marketed movement designed to siphon money away from traditional public schools. Lea

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NOV 19

11/19/2013 – Can Political Centrists Expand Pre-K Access

November 19, 2013 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Reading Should Be Fun … ‘White Moms,’ Common Core Clash … Good Teachers Embrace Culture … Cuts Hurt The Most Vulnerable Students … Free Online Education, Changes Course TOP STORY Will Political Centrists Go Outside Their Comfort Zones To Expand Pre-K Access? By Jeff Bryant ” Democratic leaders in both chambers last week introduced a new bill that would dram

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Will Political Centrists Go Outside Their Comfort Zones To Expand Pre-K Access?

Building on President Obama’s “Preschool for All Initiative” proposed earlier this year – that would dramatically expand access to prekindergarten programs for 4-year olds – Democratic leaders in both chambers last week introduced the “Strong Start for America’s Children Act”. The new bill differs somewhat from what the White House proposed, as explained by Education Week’s Alyson Klein who examin

by Jeff Bryant / 6d 

NOV 12

11/12/2013 – Still No Proof School Reform Helps

November 12, 2013 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Childcare More Expensive Than College … Schools For Wealthy Get More Funding … School Segregation Problem … Ending School To Prison Pipeline … College Misconceptions TOP STORY Sorry Nicholas Kristof, Still No Proof School Reform Helps By Jeff Bryant “Prompted by the latest results of the National Assessment of Education Progress, aka “the Nation’s Report Ca

by Jeff Bryant / 14d 

Sorry Nicholas Kristof, Still No Proof School Reform Helps

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry when an “All-Purpose-Pundit” at The New York Times takes it upon him/herself to write a commentary about education. “Thomas Friedman is infamous for his uninformed pieces on education,” Larry Ferlazzo, a retired schoolteacher and ubiquitous education commentator on the Internet recently observed. And there’s “David Brooks, who is equally off-base.” Diane R

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NOV 05

11/5/2013 – Behind Chris Christie’s Rage At Teachers

November 5, 2013 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Trouble Starting At Age 8 … The Excellence Gap … $1 Billion For Schools … Common Core Implementation Worse Than Obamacare … Will Bridgeport Reject Rhee Revolution TOP STORY What Chris Christie Is Hiding Behind His Rage At School Teachers By Jeff Bryant “New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has a record for responding with rage when anyone, not just teachers, q

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What Chris Christie Is Hiding Behind His Rage At School Teachers

“I’m tired of you people. What do you want?” Those were the words New Jersey Governor Chris Christie used to respond to one of his constituents, a taxpayer, and a public servant of the state, who had the temerity to question the governor’s leadership of the state’s education system. As reported by Valerie Strauss on her blog at The Washington Post, Melissa Tomlinson, an elementary school teacher w

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Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award | Cloaking Inequity

Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award | Cloaking Inequity:

Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award

Cloaking Inequity seeks to illuminate popular and dominant ideologies that purport to foment equality and close the achievement gap. Often well-intentioned citizens support educational policy that claim to create a more inclusive and better quality education system— unbeknownst to them— instead these policies magnify and hide inequality by utilizing an elegant, yet false, bureaucracy of data, research and media promotion. Last year I began the Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award. The 2012 inaugural winner (as voted on by the readers of Cloaking Inequity) was TFA (See: Teach For America: 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year)

The 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award will again be voted on by the readers of Cloaking Inequity and announced Thanksgiving Day (Gobble Gobble). This award will be given to the educational policy (or program or person or groups of persons) of the year that is deemed to most egregiously cloak inequity. I will provide an introductory hyperlinks about each nominee for research purposes. Let the voting begin!

 

1. Great Hearts, Basis and other profit making and/or diversity-averse corporate charters (Click here). Because The wealthy need segregated charters too!? (1 and 2), “Diversity is too hard” and What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters Notably, the Texas State Board of Education and Nashville Metro School Board saw 

Be Thankful for Libraries | Taking Note

Be Thankful for Libraries | Taking Note:

Be Thankful for Libraries

by JOHN MERROW on 26. NOV, 2013 in 2013 BLOGS

Like many of you, I gave thanks for our public schools and their teachers during American Education Week, which just ended. Now, during Thanksgiving week, I suggest we give thanks for our public libraries.

First of all, they’re everywhere: “If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the ubiquity of McDonald’s, this stat may make your day: There are more public libraries (about 17,000) in America than outposts of the burger mega-chain (about 14,000). The same is true of Starbucks (about 11,000 coffee shopsnationally).”  So wrote Emily Badger in the Atlantic Cities back in June.   She adds that libraries serve 96.4% of the US population.  While that does not mean that nearly everyone uses a public library, they could if they wanted to.

Public libraries are aggressive because they have to be; they need people coming through their doors, and so they provide internet access, loans of DVDs and more, all with the endgame of promoting literacy.

The strategy of meeting the public’s needs seems to be working: Library membership and usage are up in most parts of the country, even though public financial support has been declining.  Here in New York City for example, circulation, participation in educational programs and the number of visitors are up by 45% on average, although funding from the City is down 18%, according to the Library’s President, Tony Marx.

New York’s public library system could be a national model for how to work with schools. NYPL main 

11-26-12 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:

Gates Foundation Going All In to Support Charters in Washington State

From the Gates Foundation website:LEV Foundation Date: October 2013 Purpose: to build capacity for a state-wide public charter school support organization in Washington State Amount: $4,200,000 Term: 24 Topic: College-Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL|NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: Seattle, Washington So let's review. Lisa Macfarlane co-founded the League of Education

by Melissa Westbrook / 30min 

Washington State Charter Commission Has 22 Charter Applications

Plus three applications to Spokane School District.   The 22 applications are out of 28 letters of intent to the Charter Commission.The ones that dropped out appear to be:Bilingual Charter Academy (Russian) in Clark CountyPath to Success in LongviewTacoma Preparatory AcademyEducation Academy of Washington, cyber-charterInspire Development Education Academy,location unclearFinnish First, YakimaThos

by Melissa Westbrook / 58min 

Tuesday Open Thread

News that President Smith-Blum fell on her way to a restaurant and broke her arm.  We wish her a speedy recovery.From The Guardian, kids of today can't run as fast as their parents.On average, it takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Heart-related fitness has declined 5% each decade since 1975, for children aged 9 – 17.If you have a girl, you migh

by Melissa Westbrook / 29min   

11-25-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education News RoundupLocally (and thanks to reader Carolyn), news from Real Change newspaper about getting food to needy students for the weekends.  While the kids of John Hay Elementary School play outside, LaRock carries bags of food into classrooms and surreptitiously slips them into the backpacks of 15 kids at the 500-student school on Queen Anne Hill. Each ba

by mike simpson / 23h