Report Card on American Education 19th Edition

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Report Card on American Education:
Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress and Reform
© 2014 American Legislative Excha...

Table of Contents
About the Authors v
Acknowledgements vi
Foreword: Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana vii
CHAPTER 1 : Ed...

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DR. MATTHEW LADNER
Dr. Matthew Ladner is the senior advisor of policy and research for the Foundation for...

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We wish to thank the following for making this Report Card on American Education pos...

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Our greatest obligation as policymakers is
to ensure that all of our children have ac-cess
to a qualit...

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FOREWORD
low-income children need extra help. Targeted pre-K programs can improve...

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Education Reform:
A Year in Review

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Policy advancements in recent years have
given students across America more edu-cati...

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EDUCATION REFORM: A YEAR IN REVIEW
North Carolina lawmakers also funded an ef-fort
to increase the numbe...

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NAEP eighth-grade math has proved the most
difficult subject to improve...

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FIGURE 3 | STATES MAKING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS OR DECLINE...

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FIGURE 4 | STATES MAKING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON THE NAEP ...

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EDUCATION REFORM: A YEAR IN REVIEW
TABLE 1 | STATES MAKING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS OR DECLINES...

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FIGURE 5 | STATES WITH PRIVATE CHOICE PROGRAMS
WA
OR
CA
ID
NV
AZ
...

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FIGURE 6 | STATES WITH PRIVATE CHOICE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISAB...

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FIGURE 7 | STATES MAKING 10-POINT OR GREATER GAINS ON THE STRENGTH OF T...

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TABLE 2 | YEAR-BY-YEAR SCORES FOR STATE CHARTER SCHOOL LAWS 2010-2013...

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FIGURE 8 | JURISDICTIONS ADOPTING “A” THROUGH “F” LETTER GRADES FOR SCH...

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EDUCATION REFORM: A YEAR IN REVIEW
post school- and district- level information about
performance and g...

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keep track of the rapidly expanding MOOC uni-verse.
This is no easy ta...

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EDUCATION REFORM: A YEAR IN REVIEW
ENDNOTES
1. Similar efforts were undertaken in Florida, and since th...

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A Decade Of Data On State
Academic Achievement

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Until the passage of NCLB, state participa-tion
in the NAEP remained optional. NCLB...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
decided to withdraw its application. Analysts
would find...

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CHAPTER TWO
policymakers are in a complex game of 3-D
chess in their efforts to im...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
show a dismal record in terms of producing sta-tistically...

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CHAPTER TWO
in reading and math in grades three through
eight, and once in high sc...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
FIGURE 5 | NAEP EIGHTH-GRADE READING EXAM POINT GAINS BET...

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CHAPTER TWO
Carolina. The average state will have seen more
progress in creating p...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
improvement for public schools during this pe-riod
was f...

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FIGURE 8 | NAEP FOURTH-GRADE MATH EXAM POINT GAINS BETWEEN 2003 AND 201...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
in the Great Plains and Great Lakes region gen-erally
di...

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in the District of Columbia) to the truly forget-table
(one point in M...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
math progress greatly exceeds those making
eighth-grade ...

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jurisdictions have incredibly diverse student bod-ies;
others, such as...

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A DECADE OF DATA ON STATE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
at full grade-level proficiency. Even when stu-dents
of ...

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CHAPTER TWO
ENDNOTES
1 Cavanagh, Sean. 2012. Available on the Internet at http://b...

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Education Policy Grades And Academic Performance

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Education Policy Grades And
Academic Performance
The following pages provide state...

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EDUCATION POLICY GRADES AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
The Center for Education Reform provides this
informat...

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some categories, grades were awarded with plus-es
and minuses, and n...

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EDUCATION POLICY GRADES AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
be dramatically lower than the usual presenta-tion
of ...

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CHAPTER THREE
ENDNOTES
1 Peterson, Paul E. and Peter Kaplan 2013. “Despite Common ...

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STATE SNAPSHOTS
NAEP Scores for Low-Income General Education
Students (2003-2013)
NAEP Low-Income Gene...

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2014 STATE EDUCATION PERFORMANCE AND POLICY INDEX
The Last Frontier
Alaska
NAEP S...

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STATE SNAPSHOTS
The Grand Canyon State
Arizona
NAEP Scores for Low-Income General Education
Students ...

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