Comments on: Brace for the Progress Reports http://www.edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Progress Reports? Minus one for the bad guys « JD2718 http://www.edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports/comment-page-1#comment-63924 Progress Reports? Minus one for the bad guys « JD2718 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:36:44 +0000 http://edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports#comment-63924 [...] who thought there was something positive, and Leo who was strangely quiet (though Maisie wrote something sceptical in advance) (maybe Leo could reprint some of the UFT official resolution). Even the reasonable [...] [...] who thought there was something positive, and Leo who was strangely quiet (though Maisie wrote something sceptical in advance) (maybe Leo could reprint some of the UFT official resolution). Even the reasonable [...]

]]> By: School Report Cards Are Out | The Daily Gotham http://www.edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports/comment-page-1#comment-63906 School Report Cards Are Out | The Daily Gotham Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:44:30 +0000 http://edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports#comment-63906 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Wonkster collects a few links and comments. Edwize (the UFT blog) has pre-release comments here and the UFT post-release, press release is here. For a fun and funny parody, try High School [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Wonkster collects a few links and comments. Edwize (the UFT blog) has pre-release comments here and the UFT post-release, press release is here. For a fun and funny parody, try High School [...]

]]> By: Harringtonian http://www.edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports/comment-page-1#comment-63832 Harringtonian Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:46:40 +0000 http://edwize.org/brace-for-the-progress-reports#comment-63832 The "peer group" concept - as applied by Tweed - is off the wall. In partcular, as I understand it, no two schools will have the identical peer group - each will be measured in a universe of forty which will change from school to school. Further, the cohort will be calculated under the following rubric: a) 40% - Title I percentage. b) 10% - ELL percentage c) 10% - IEP percentage AND d) 40% Black & Hispanic percentage. Given that NO consideration is given to "achievement gap" data, the heavy weight attributed to Black and Hispanic populations - totally separate and apart from the weighting of impoverished populations is (at least in elementary schools) totally unfathomable. Tweed seems unaware that in in the Age before Klein, the Bd. of Educ. maintained statistical ratings of schools based on "Student Need" levels. Those twelve levels were determined by: a) Title I population - 60% b) ELL population - 20% c) IEP population - 20% Accordingly, under the new rubric, differences in ELL and Special Ed populations are given 1/4th the consideration in determining "peer group" status, respectively, that race/ethnicity gets. Thus, under Tweed's Brave New World, schools that largely share RACIAL similarities are increasingly the ones that are compared to each other - sort of a "separate but equal" approach, I guess. How Progressive! The “peer group” concept – as applied by Tweed – is off the wall. In partcular, as I understand it, no two schools will have the identical peer group – each will be measured in a universe of forty which will change from school to school.

Further, the cohort will be calculated under the following rubric:
a) 40% – Title I percentage.
b) 10% – ELL percentage
c) 10% – IEP percentage AND
d) 40% Black & Hispanic percentage.

Given that NO consideration is given to “achievement gap” data, the heavy weight attributed to Black and Hispanic populations – totally separate and apart from the weighting of impoverished populations is (at least in elementary schools) totally unfathomable.

Tweed seems unaware that in in the Age before Klein, the Bd. of Educ. maintained statistical ratings of schools based on “Student Need” levels. Those twelve levels were determined by:

a) Title I population – 60%
b) ELL population – 20%
c) IEP population – 20%

Accordingly, under the new rubric, differences in ELL and Special Ed populations are given 1/4th the consideration in determining “peer group” status, respectively, that race/ethnicity gets. Thus, under Tweed’s Brave New World, schools that largely share RACIAL similarities are increasingly the ones that are compared to each other – sort of a “separate but equal” approach, I guess. How Progressive!

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