Index of Slides
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School Report Cards 2004–2005
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The Bottom Line
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The Bottom Line
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The Bottom Line
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More Schools Are Making Adequate Yearly Progress
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Holding Schools Accountable: The Bottom Line How Many Schools Made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
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Schools Making AYP – Elementary Schools A larger percentage of schools made AYP in 2004-05 than in 2003-04 in mathematics.
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Schools Making AYP – Middle Schools A larger percentage of schools made AYP in 2004-05 than in 2003-04 in English and in science.
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Schools Making AYP – High Schools More schools made AYP in 2004-05 than in 2003-04 in English and math.
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Nonetheless, as we saw in February, graduation rates for the Class of 2005 were too low.
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Key Fact - Graduation rates are strongly tied to attendance rates.
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Schools with the lowest attendance rates also have the lowest graduation rates. Graduation rates tend to drop as schools fall below 95% attendance. The graduation rate decline gets very large the more attendance falls below 92%.
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Who Are the Students? Performance in Elementary and Middle School
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Performance on the Elementary and Middle School English and Math Tests by Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Need/Resource Capacity Index
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Elementary English: Achievement Gap Closing High Need Districts showed the biggest increase in the number of students meeting all the standards this year. High Need Districts have shown major improvement since 1999.
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Elementary English: Major Progress for Minority Students For the first time, more than half of Black and Hispanic students now meet all standards. The achievement gap has closed significantly since 1999.
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Elementary-Level Mathematics The percentage of students achieving all the standards increased in every need/resource capacity category. Since 1999, New York City and the Big Four have achieved increases of about 25 percentage points.
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Elementary-Level Mathematics: Achievement Gap is Closing The percentage of Black and Hispanic students meeting all the standards improved significantly this year. The percent doing so has increased by over 30 percentage points since 1999.
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Middle-Level Mathematics Despite a decline in 2005, more students overall are achieving all the standards now than in 1999.
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Middle-Level Mathematics The percentage of students meeting all the standards declined in each racial/ethnic group in 2005. However, it increased overall between 1999 and 2004. Despite the decrease in 2005, Black and Hispanic students were more than twice as likely to meet the standards in 2005 as in 1999. However, their performance is still too low.
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Middle-Level English Statewide, the percentage of students meeting the standards increased by less than one percentage point. Rural, average and low need districts achieved two to four percentage point increases. New York City declined, and the Big 4 stayed about the same.
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Middle-Level English In every category except Large Cities, 90 percent or more of students met some of the standards.
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Middle-Level English: Achievement Gap Persists A large performance gap still exists between White and Asian students and students in other racial/ethnic groups.
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What Does Elementary, Middle School Achievement Show Us?
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High School Student Achievement
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More students who entered 9th grade in 2001 passed the Regents Exams than graduated in 4 years. But too many students were not tested because they failed their courses.
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Overall, more students now are taking and passing Regents Exams each year.
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Graduates Since higher standards were adopted in 1996, the number of high school graduates has increased, and especially in the past two years.
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To Recap – Key Facts to Remember
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Holding Schools Accountable: The Bottom Line How Many Schools Made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
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Schools with the lowest attendance rates also have the lowest graduation rates. Graduation rates tend to drop as schools fall below 95% attendance. The graduation rate decline gets very large the more attendance falls below 92%.
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Elementary English: Major Progress for Minority Students For the first time, more than half of Black and Hispanic students now meet all standards. The achievement gap has closed significantly since 1999.
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Graduates Since higher standards were adopted in 1996, the number of high school graduates has increased, and especially in the past two years.
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The Bottom Line
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What Schools Are Doing
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What Schools Are Doing
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What the Regents Are Considering To Reform High School
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