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Less testing ... or better testing?
In a breakout session during this morning's Guilford Education Alliance summit, Joe Graves, dean of University Studies at A&T, faulted AYPs because they're based on state standards, not national or international standards.
How do we know how we're really doing in North Carolina if we can't compare our students to students in other states?
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Doug: Check out Garth Hebert's comments on the Chalkboard regarding GCS graduates' struggles in their freshman and sophomore undergraduate years. Perhaps the SAT provides a better measure for college preparedness?
Posted on November 21, 2007 12:33 AM
Thanks, Pierce.
I've written about this, including "Average SAT scores related to student retention on UNC campus": http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offtherecord/archives/2007/10/im_going_to_dis.shtml
I've also referred many times to UNC performance measures, which tell you how students from each North Carolina high school perform in each subject on each UNC campus. With that information, the school system should be able to pinpoint and correct weaknesses in secondary education.
In today's editorial, "Start smart, end smart" http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071121/NRSTAFF/71120040/-1/OPINION08 I quoted Joe Graves, dean of University Studies at A&T, as complaining of "woeful and glaring deficiencies in the preparation of students coming out of Guilford County Schools to the university, particularly African American students."
A&T is raising admission standards. Indeed, the entire UNC system is likely to do the same. School systems must respond by strengthening their preparation of students, or else more and more of our young people will be shut out of our own universities.
Posted on November 21, 2007 8:20 AM