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Making some students vanish hurts state graduation report |
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08/27/08
The state, in reforming its method for counting high school dropouts, has essentially taken a group of students who are most at risk of not graduating and made them vanish for a year. This won't help Michigan get a better grasp on its dropout problem in urban areas and will make schools and the state less accountable for results. Michigan has been using a faulty counting system that inflated its high school graduation rate. After years of complaints and calculations by outside researchers showing lower graduation rates than those claimed by Michigan schools, education officials tried to fix the problem this year. They have adopted a nationally recognized way to compute graduates and dropouts. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/OPINION01/808270316/1008 |
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New Michigan dropout count isn't reassuring |
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08/27/08
For years, Detroit's high school dropout rate has been recognized as the nation's worst. Residents who have waited for Michigan to figure out if that really is the case will have to keep waiting. Michigan released Monday its heralded new graduation and dropout rates, which leaders have promised would be a more accurate, uniform method of counting dropouts, who are notoriously miscounted by schools. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/OPINION03/808270309/1008/OPINION01 |
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Fewer Mich. schools meet federal goals |
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08/26/08
Fewer Michigan schools met the federal academic targets required under the No Child Left Behind Act during the 2007-08 school year, according to state report cards released Monday. According to the Michigan Department of Education, 8 out of 10 public schools met federal academic targets this past school year. The goals, called Adequate Yearly Progress, are required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/SCHOOLS/808260376/1026 |
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Michigan says 25% don't graduate |
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One in four students don't
earn diploma in four years
A fourth of Michigan's high school students are not graduating on time, according to data released Monday that uses a new formula that gives the most accurate picture to date of how many students earn a diploma in four years. The 75 percent completion rate for the class of 2007 was about 10 percentage points lower than it was for the 2005-06 year, which was calculated using the old method. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/SCHOOLS/808260373/1026 |
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Districts added to 'critical' list |
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08/24/08
Pinckney Community Schools and the Brighton Area Schools districts were added last week by the Michigan Education Association to its "critical" list because both have employee groups they have yet to settle contracts with. The MEA — Michigan's largest education union — publishes the list when local unions report a lack of progress in negotiations for contracts between school districts and teacher, support service and other employee groups. For more information, please refer to the Livingston Daily atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://www.livingstondaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/NEWS01/808240338 |
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Tough programs attract students |
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More Mich. districts offer
International Baccalaureate study as demand grows
TROY -- Drake Gamelin is only 13, but he already knows he wants to become a dermatologist. To get a jump on the competition, Drake, a freshman, enrolled in the International Academy East, a new high school in Troy that offers the rigorous International Baccalaureate program. When he graduates from the school, Drake will be the equivalent of a sophomore in college. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080811/SCHOOLS/808110359/1026 |
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Search a scores database: Merit exam scores disappoint again |
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State finds many high school
juniors struggling
More than half of the high
school juniors who took the Michigan Merit Exam this spring posted failing
scores in math. And their performance was even worse in writing. But while students showed slight improvement in reading, writing and science, the results for those subjects still show large numbers of teens struggling to meet expectations. For more information, please refer to the Detroit Free Press atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/NEWS06/808080383/1008 |
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Student test scores remain low |
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State officials expect results
to improve as more are educated under new graduation requirements
LANSING -- While scores inched forward this year on most portions of the state's high school test, results remained dismal, with just about half of the state's juniors passing the English test and less than half passing math, according to results released Thursday by the Michigan Department of Education. Only 52 percent passed the English section of the Michigan Merit Exam (MME), which is in its second year. That's up from 51 percent the year before. In math, 46 percent passed, which is the same as the previous year. High school juniors were tested this past spring on the new test, which is billed as a tougher measure of college preparedness. For more information, please refer to the Detroit News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/SCHOOLS/808080339/1026 |
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Some Saginaw County schools struggle, others best state average on ACT |
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08/08/08
The 80-student private school sits on a rural stretch of North Outer Drive in Buena Vista Township. Tuition costs the state thousands of dollars per year, students wear uniforms and security is tight. The 20-foot high fences around the Wolverine Secure Treatment Center are designed to keep the students in, not to protect them. For more information, please refer to the Saginaw-Area News atfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsfdsfsfdsfsfdt http://www.mlive.com/saginawnews/news/index.ssf/2008/08/some_saginaw_county_schools_st.html |
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