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Posted May 21, 2007 Diplomas Count '06 - Education Week's Graduation Rates Map Viewer (based on 2002-03 data). Posted May 8, 2007 May 1, 2007 - Understanding High School Graduation Rates in Minnesota - Minnesota has a 39% Black-White Graduation Rate Gap (NCES Common Core of Data, 2002-03), Alliance for Excellent Education (Press Release; State Profiles Sources and Notes). April 2007 - Fall 2006 Minnesota School Readiness Study Developmental Assessment at Kindergarten Entrance, Minnesota Department of Education. May 2007-Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops -Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse. April 2007 - Linking NAEP Achievement Levels to TIMSS - Interpreting international results in the light of U.S. standards can help make international patterns more visible to a U.S. audience. In short, the United States is a nation that is not meeting its own expectations, American Institutes for Research. November 2006 - The Architecture of a New Racial Discourse - Reframing the conversation around race in the United States, FrameWorks Institute. April 2007 - Issue Brief: Course Credit Accrual and Dropping Out of High School - High school dropouts earn fewer credits than do on-time graduates within each academic year, and the gap in course credits accrued between dropouts and on-time graduates increased across academic years, National Center for Education Statistics. June 2006 - Diplomas count: State and District Patterns, Education Week's Editorial Projects in Education (Data Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2002-03). [Free log in required] Minnesota ranked: Notes: New Jersey, North Dakota, Iowa, Vermont and Wisconsin outperformed Minnesota on overall Graduation Rates, All Students; all at over 80%. Oregon, Nebraska, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota had the highest Black-White Graduation Rate Gaps; all at greater than 39%. Hawaii, West Virginia, Mississippi, Arizona and Wyoming had the lowest Black-White Graduation Rate Gaps; all at less than 10%. New Jersey, Iowa, Connecticut and Pennsylvania outperformed Minnesota on both overall Graduation Rates and smaller Black-White Graduation Rate Gaps. Black-White Graduation Rate Gap data was not available for North Dakota, Vermont, Idaho, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Maine, Tennessee and South Carolina because necessary data field(s) were not reported in CCD or because of very small group size. Posted April 23, 2007 September 2006 - It Takes A Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act - Showcases effective parent involvement initiatives in five states, Appleseed (Press Release). Posted April 20, 2007 Spring 2007 - Would Reductions in Class Size Raise Minnesota Students' Test Scores? Evidence from Minnesota's Elementary Schools - Reducing class sizes in Minnesota elementary schools would have only very small impacts on student learning as measured by test scores; schools and parents should look elsewhere for policies to improve student learning, CURA Reporter. Posted April 2, 2007 March 28, 2007 - NCLB Reauthorization: Effective Strategies for Engaging Parents and Communities in Schools - Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. | ||||||||||
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