ERS ready to roll up their sleeves for schools
Recovery specialists work to improve more than just test scores.
Meetings focus on new student report cards, Unbridled Learning
Kentucky’s new school and student accountability and assessment system meets the requirements of Senate Bill 1 and the pledges of the state’s waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act. For Kentucky school board members and superintendents, one of those challenges will be explaining the Unbridled Learning system and what the measures of student achievement mean at the local level. [...]
Preparing for K-PREP results
The Kentucky Department of Education will release the results of the first Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) next month. Education Commissioner Terry Holliday I know there is great anticipation – and maybe anxiousness – about what the results will reveal. Kentucky educators are drawn to teaching by the belief they can make a positive difference in [...]
Book review: Transformative Assessment in Action: An Inside Look at Applying the Process
Popham's book offers concrete ideas that will lead classroom teachers to a better understanding of the formative process and how it can help with student achievement.
21st-century skills need 21st-century assessment
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the 300s section of my school library. As part of my practicum experience for my Rank I in library science, my supervising librarians gave me an assignment to update some of the career titles in our library. As I went through the many outdated career books from the 1990s this [...]
Blue Ribbon School goes for mastery minus the grades
Gamaliel Elementary teachers rely on standards-based grading system, collaboration.
State assessment system gives some accountability to high schoolers
High school students’ grades will depend on how they do on state accountability tests.
Middle schools ‘EXPLORE’ college/career readiness
In addition to the K-PREP tests, middle school students will be assessed on their college and career readiness.
Assessment system looks to ‘develop well-rounded kids’
Elementary schools will be assessed on three things this year: achievement, gap and growth.
KDE seeks funding for school improvement, college/career readiness and testing
The Kentucky Board of Education is supporting legislation this session that would increase compulsory school attendance from age 16 to 18, provide funding flexibility to school districts and adjust the preschool funding formula.