Staff Writer Lancaster County students scored higher, on average, on PSSAs in 2009 than they did the previous year, according to statistics released by the state Department of Education.
IT'S HARD to find a silver lining for Portsmouth's school system in the gloomy set of statistics released by state education officials. This year, the city recorded the worst graduation rate and the third-highest dropout rate in Virginia. But there are, perhaps, a few silver threads.
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia's fourth- and eighth-graders are doing slightly better than they were two years ago in both reading and math, but their scores remain below the national averages. The figures are in national and state report cards released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics. Its National Assessment of Educational Progress tests a representative sample of students using different versions of key assessment questions.
Wisconsin continues to have one of the nation's largest gaps in achievement between black and white public school students, with some disparities growing in recent years, according to a national report issued Tuesday. The report by the National Center for Education Statistics tracked state-by-state performance by black and white students on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress' reading and math assessments. It then compared the results with tests since the early 1990s.
There is an ongoing debate on US education policy. However, both sides of the debate often use and abuse education statistics. Local, state and national education statistics are often compromised by inaccuracies and bias.
Students at for-profit schools in Pennsylvania defaulted nearly three times more often on federally guaranteed loans than students at traditional colleges and universities, a Tribune-Review analysis shows. Almost one of every five students in 112 for-profit schools in Pennsylvania defaulted during the three years ended in September. About one in 14 students at 195 traditional schools in the state quit repaying their loans, statistics compiled by the Department of Education revealed.
The Secretary announces dates for the submission by State educational agencies (SEAs) of expenditure and revenue data and average daily attendance statistics on ED Form 2447 (the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS)) for FY 2011. The Secretary sets these dates to ensure that data are available to serve as the basis for timely distribution of Federal funds. The U.S. Census Bureau is the data collection agent for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The data will be published by NCES and will be used by the Secretary in the calculation of allocations for FY 2013 appropriated funds.
THE BITTER medicine of smaller government that voters said they wanted, and that Governor Christie is intent on delivering, is beginning to take effect. According to statistics released by the New Jersey School Boards Association, cuts to state education aid are already being seen in smaller raises in teacher contracts. As Staff Writer Patricia Alex reports, annual raises averaged 2.03 percent in the 75 teacher contracts for 2010-11 that were settled since January. Analysis showed that the average raise dipped even further, to 1.58 percent, between April and June as the budget wars were being fought in Trenton and the governor was calling on teachers unions to take a one-year pay freeze.
School dropout statistics released Wednesday by the state Department of Education, indicating that about one in four high school students in the state drop out, were greeted as a revelation by many. But for some schools, the dropout numbers likely left some officials scratching their heads.
West Virginia's adult literacy rates have improved since the early 1990s, but big gaps still exist between rural and urban counties, leaving some residents without the most basic skill required for success in the 21st century. The National Center for Education Statistics released a report Thursday that for the first time provides detailed estimates by state and county of the percentage of adults who lack basic prose literacy skills.
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