Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year Melanie Trowel helps Micah Lowe, Jayden Lydian and Anthony Wright with a graph analyzing daylight length and the angle of the sun during her 8th-grade science class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, “I believe that education [...]
Education Commissioner Terry Holliday Look at our most recent college- and career-readiness and graduation rates and you can see the tremendous progress we are making in Kentucky public education. Our teachers and administrators do an amazing job every day, in spite of the fact they are doing so with less funding. Educators have told me about the negative [...]
Superintendents will join teachers and principals in having a growth and effectiveness system.
Kentucky has earned high marks for its effective collection and use of educational data to improve student achievement.
Holly Bloodworth, the 2014 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, discusses bats with her students as a part of a lesson involving informational texts at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 28, 2013 Being named the 2014 Kentucky Teacher of the Year is sure to be one of the most exciting professional times of [...]
Joanna Howerton Stevens As a young girl, I often played school with my imaginary students. My bedroom was my classroom and it included an old school desk with a red grade book similar to the one my mom used to record her students’ grades. My teachers were my role models and I was eager to attend school each day. [...]
About 3 out of every 5 of Kentucky’s public high school students who graduated in 2011 enrolled in college for the 2011-2012 academic year, exceeding the previous year’s enrollment, according to the 2013 Kentucky High School Feedback Report released this week by the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS). “This report provides the best information about college going and freshman year success [...]
College/career ready means having a good work ethic in Hardin County.
Kentucky's 4th graders and 8th graders continue to outperform their peers nationally in reading and are on par or slightly below the national average in mathematics according to data released today from the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card. The 2013 data indicate: • In both 4th- and 8th-grade reading, Kentucky students scored [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education released the first data from program reviews conducted in the state’s public schools. Data released included program reviews in arts and humanities, practical living/career studies and writing. Senate Bill 1 (2009) called for program reviews to be included as part of the state’s new assessment and accountability model. “Today’s release provides helpful information that schools [...]