Aloha, Jenny,
1992 NAEP 4th grade Math (Numbers and Operations) 90th-10th percentile score difference, Ct, was 67 points. Least was Maine (57 points). Greatest was Maryland (75 points). 42 States participated. Ct. was in a 7-way tie for 33rd through 38th place.
1992 NAEP 4th grade Math Numbers and Operations 75th-25th percentile score difference, Ct, was 47 points. Least was Wyoming (40 points). Greatest was Maryland (54 points). Ct was in an 8-way tie for 24th through 31st place.
1992 NAEP 8th grade Math (Algebra and Functions). Mean score by parents race and level of education. States ranked by "delta", the difference between mean score, children of college-educated White parents-children of high school-educated Black parents. Ct. = 52. Least diffrence, Maine (19 points). Greatest difference, DC (62.9), and Maryland (62.1).
The mean age at which the top five States (least delta) compelled attendance at school was 6.8 years. The mean age at which the top 10 compelled attendance was 6.7. The mean age at which the bottom five States compelled attendance was 6.2. The mean age at which the bottom ten compelled attendance was 6.5. The coefficient of correlation (age-start, delta)= -0.19. Later is better.
The mean fraction of total student population in districts over 20,000 of the top five States was 0.15. Top ten was 0.16. Bottom five was 0.576. Bottom ten was 0.359. The coefficient of correlation (%20K+dist, delta)= + 0.46. Smaller is better.
Other years, other tests yield similar results. Smaller districts and a later age of compulsory attendance give parents more control. Political control of school harms most the children of the least politically adept parents.
Aloha, Jenny D.,
1996 NAEP 8th grade Math (Numbers and Operations) 90th-10th percentile score difference. Least: Iowa=75 points. 26th place: Ct = 90 points. Greatest(41st place): DC = 115. 40th: Maryland = 102.
Rank States by delta (90th-10th percentile score) Top is least difference. Mean age at which States compel attendance at school, mean fraction of total enrollment in districts over 20,000)...
Top five: age=6.6, %20K+dist.= 0.18.
Top ten: age=6.8, %20K+dist.=0.173.
Bottom ten: age=6.1, %20K+dist.=0.462.
Bottom five: age=6.0, %20K+dist.=0.642
The coefficient of correlation (age-start, delta) = -0.132.
The coefficient of correlation (%20K+dist, delta) = 0.534.
Early compulsory attendance exacerbates inequality of result, as measured by NAEP 8th grade Math percentile scores. Large districts exacerbate inequality of result.
Later is better. Smaller is better.
I'm confused. I thought Connecticut just wanted more money to publish/administer the tests *or* be allowed to test every other year rather than every year? It seems like a reasonable request - I have not seen any evidence that suggests testing every year will generate signficant results compared to testing every other year, anyway.
I don't see how CT's proposal is "undermining civil rights", as the NAACP motion contends. I might be missing something, though, as I haven't been following the Connecticut situation closely.
Oh, the NAACP sees an opportunity to reinflate the race issue. They want to make sure they have the ammunition which they figure will be verified by the so-called "racial divide", measurable by the testing required by the NCLB.
That'll be solveable by, oh, let's see, federal aid based on racial makeup or size of the divide or whatever rationale results in racial pork.
My only regret is that I don't think the division between the NEA and NAACP can be exploited. Since they're both in the same business - rent-seeking - they'll figure out a way to patch up their differences.
"I don't see how CT's proposal is "undermining civil rights", as the NAACP motion contends. I might be missing something, though, as I haven't been following the Connecticut situation closely."
Connecticut is an extraordinarily wealthy state that has done an extraordinarily awful job of educating non-white, non-wealthy, non-suburban kids. NCLB edicts, for all their flaws, insist that certain measure of accountability for instruction exist, whether in Fairfield or New Haven. Moreover, it shines a light into those "dark" places that otherwise affluent states like CT can pretty much ignore, revealing, at least in part, the negligence occuring there. In the absence of NCLB accountability and visibility, the situation foor poor black kids in CT is bound to get worse, thereby undermining their civil right to a quality education. I think the people in charge over there are less pissed about spending the money per se, and more pissed about what those tests reveal about what they've been doing all these years.
Any moves made by the NAACP these days must be carefully reviewed, because they will turncoat and ally themselves with the wrong side anymore.
Check out my case in NH, which has led me to giving spoken word presentations in CT.
Read this email first, which ironically contains a somewhat oblique reference to my history as someone actively involved in education and I too, was a reporter/editor first for a statewide black weekly in Ohio, then at the Indy Star. I am in Norwalk. We should talk.
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as does this post (scroll to bottom):
http://christopher-king.blogspot...or-
michael.html
So without further delay:
http://christopher-
king.blogspot...ganization.html
http://christopher-king.blogspot...ke-
picasso.html
http://christopher-king.blogspot...-
extortion.html
Ahhh, and last but not least, be aware that NAACP President Timmons (the grimacing one in green) felt free to use me for her own friends and family to help eradicate corruption in CT, ironically -- then they and their lawyers, who control the media up here, got WMUR to say I was operating a "scam" in CT. They are unbelievable.
http://christopher-king.blogspot...ing-
gloria.html
No Justice, No Peace.
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