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896 Michigan schools didn't meet progress goals under the NCLB act.
Four of those are from the Plymouth-Canton district, which is where I went to school, and those include both high schools (from when I was there, anyway, they've since built a third school on the campus) and two middle schools. I went to Canton High School, and I went to East Middle School.
From the Free Press article listing all the schools:
Schools can miss the progress targets in several ways. The main one is if not enough students show proficiency on the math or reading tests. But schools also have to make sure 95 percent of students take the test. The state said 268 schools didn't make the targets because not enough students took the test; 4 didn't because they didn't have an 85 percent attendance rate; and 19 didn't have an 80 percent graduation rate.
Going by the numbers from the linked article, there are 3472 schools in Michigan. (I didn't check to see if they're all public or not.) So fully one quarter of the schools in this state did not meet the fabulous new federal standards.
Interesting.
``No Child Left Behind is a moral imperative. Raise your hand if you think your child or any other child should be left behind. The answer is `no,''' said Tom Watkins, superintendent of public instruction.
Of course no one thinks children should be 'left behind'. That's a fucking stupid thing to say. Fucking rhetoric.
Some educators say the yearly progress measure is unfair because it relies only on MEAP scores. Complaints about the report card grades also have been numerous, ranging from good schools who feel their grade doesn't reflect their quality, to districts who say the grades don't take enough non-MEAP factors into account.
This sort of thing makes it seem like schools are totally failing everywhere, when in actuality I cannot imagine that any school would say "We're doing terribly. Let's just sit back and watch" instead of enacting new programs to help themselves. Sure, this report card business might spur schools to try to improve themselves further--but primarily for the MEAP, so they won't have to worry about losing funds or "restructuring". Which doesn't help.
Four of those are from the Plymouth-Canton district, which is where I went to school, and those include both high schools (from when I was there, anyway, they've since built a third school on the campus) and two middle schools. I went to Canton High School, and I went to East Middle School.
From the Free Press article listing all the schools:
Schools can miss the progress targets in several ways. The main one is if not enough students show proficiency on the math or reading tests. But schools also have to make sure 95 percent of students take the test. The state said 268 schools didn't make the targets because not enough students took the test; 4 didn't because they didn't have an 85 percent attendance rate; and 19 didn't have an 80 percent graduation rate.
Going by the numbers from the linked article, there are 3472 schools in Michigan. (I didn't check to see if they're all public or not.) So fully one quarter of the schools in this state did not meet the fabulous new federal standards.
Interesting.
``No Child Left Behind is a moral imperative. Raise your hand if you think your child or any other child should be left behind. The answer is `no,''' said Tom Watkins, superintendent of public instruction.
Of course no one thinks children should be 'left behind'. That's a fucking stupid thing to say. Fucking rhetoric.
Some educators say the yearly progress measure is unfair because it relies only on MEAP scores. Complaints about the report card grades also have been numerous, ranging from good schools who feel their grade doesn't reflect their quality, to districts who say the grades don't take enough non-MEAP factors into account.
This sort of thing makes it seem like schools are totally failing everywhere, when in actuality I cannot imagine that any school would say "We're doing terribly. Let's just sit back and watch" instead of enacting new programs to help themselves. Sure, this report card business might spur schools to try to improve themselves further--but primarily for the MEAP, so they won't have to worry about losing funds or "restructuring". Which doesn't help.
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