The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. It’s unfair these students – about 98,000 across the state with conditions ranging from dyslexia to severe cognitive impairments – are entering society unprepared, said former Kentucky Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, a longtime supporter of the Common Core standards.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. And third-grade reading scores — the best predictor of future academic success — have also fallen precipitously.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . Every state has its own annual assessments, but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning.

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