How many of our students graduate?

First the good news:

“In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. These across-the-board increases have occurred despite dramatic immigration-driven changes in the racial and ethnic composition of college-age young adults, a trend that had led some experts to expect a decline in educational attainment.

College completion is now at record levels among key demographic groups: men and women; blacks, whites and Hispanics; and foreign-born and native-born Americans.”

Released: November 5, 2012

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/11/05/record-shares-of-young-adults-have-finished-both-high-school-and-college

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But internationally …U.S. reading scores on Program for International Student Assessment

EDUCATION WEEKPublished in Print: January 12, 2012, as “U.S. Education Pressured by International Comparisons”By Sean Cavanagh

“Concern over American students' middling scores on high-profile tests vies with caution about cultural and political factors that shape school improvement …. ”

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http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference/2010/12/pisa_its_poverty_not_stupid_1.html

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“A more accurate assessment of the performance of U.S. students would be obtained by comparing the scores of American schools with comparable poverty rates to those of other countries.”

“Schools in the United States with less than a 10% poverty rate had a PISA score of 551. When compared to the ten countries with similar poverty numbers, that score ranked first.”

http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference/2010/12/pisa_its_poverty_not_stupid_1.html

Country Poverty Rate PISA ScoreUnited States <10% 551Finland 3.4% 536Netherlands 9.0% 508Belgium 6.7% 506Norway 3.6% 503Switzerland 6.8% 501France 7.3% 496Denmark 2.4% 495Czech Republic 7.2% 478<10

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“The problem is not as much with our educational system as it is with our high poverty rates. The real crisis is the level of poverty in too many of our schools and the relationship between poverty and student achievement. Our lowest achieving schools are the most under-resourced schools with the highest number of disadvantaged students. We cannot treat these schools in the same way that we would schools in more advantaged neighborhoods or we will continue to get the same results.”

http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference/2010/12/pisa_its_poverty_not_stupid_1.html

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And on the WASL/HSPE:• 82% of the class of 2011 who took the test

passed the Reading HSPE. • 86% passed the Writing HSPE. • Only 66% passed the Year 2 Math test.

(33% in 1998 -99)BUT….

• Washington 4th graders’ NAEP test scores in math went from 17th in the nation (1996) to 9th in 2005.

• At the same time Washington’s African American 4th graders went from 13th to 1st.

• 8th graders’ NAEP scores in math went from 14th to 7th.

• Washington’s African American 8th graders went from 19th to 2nd in the nation.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2016055610_testscores31m.html