Posted on 10/14/2009 2:35:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
About 30 percent of fourth-graders and 23 percent of eight-graders in California tested proficient math tests from the National Assessment of Education Progress, ranking the state near the bottom nationally.
Only students in Mississippi, Alabama and Washington, D.C. had lower scores on the tests, commonly referred to as the "nation's report card." (See an interactive graphic on the scores here.)
Nationwide, 38 percent of fourth-graders and 33 percent of eighth-graders performed at proficient levels. Scores for English tests will be released in coming weeks.
Fewer than 170,000 students in the country were tested per grade in the exams administered last school year. Scores were not broken down beyond the state level. In Orange County, fewer than 100 students take the test each year. The names of participating schools are not released.
Both national and state scores have remained about the same since 2006.
Local and state educators each year downplay the significance of California's results. They say the tests don't take into account the uneven concentrations of English learners in states, different teaching standards and small sample sizes.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
My daughter spends her summers in OC...the school year in Mississippi. I got the two of the rear ends covered..
Something like only 5% of the Latino boys from immigrants even come close to graduating high school, so that can’t be doing anything good for the math results.
I was told that the same policy was in place in Virginia in the late 1950s, to put kids transferring from schools in California back one grade automatically.
States don’t have any say in immigration policy.
I tend to agree. Literacy and ability to do simple calculations are no longer necessary. I have watched the Third Worlder’s at McDonald’s; they simply push the little icon on the screen. Heck! Even Obama can be president simply tell him what to say on a teleprompter!
The same state that celebrates Harvey Milk Day!
( And...Thousands upon thousands of California parents and taxpayers **willingly** agree to keep these atheistic Marxist indoctrination centers of ignorance open!)
In the late 1950s and early 1960s California schools were the best in the country by a wide margin.
“23%”? , said the state school czar,Quantalvius Gomez, “that’s not so bad—it’s 8 out of 10, isn’t it?”
/sarc
The liberal indoctrination is in all public schools in all states.
“California math scores among nation’s worst”
What a suprise (/sarc).
Given the article from “Newsweek” (or was it “TIME”) that I sent my
family member at Mississippi State University entitled:
“The Mississippication of California”.
Back in the later part of the 1990s, IIRC.
(for once, the major media noted that the Liberal NUT-BURGER
approach to the alien invasion actually did lead to a degradation
of California’s public school system.)
California was the envy of the other 49 US states (and perhaps the rest
of the Earth)...until they decided that they had to let invaders into
the system...so they wouldn’t be called “racists”.
Cruel empires can fall by being too mean.
Decent empires fail by being too FREAKIN’ NICE!!!!
I know. But they sure can do their best to attract as many as new arrivees possible.
True, particulary as the general trend is that the scores increase, becoming almost respectable, the further north you go.
What can I say; Texas is just squared away...
“the problem is, we are not spending enough on education. /s”
And in DC English is a 2nd language (lowest scores, highest money)
TEACHING MATH IN 2015:
Un hachero vende una carretada de Madera pare $100. ¡El costo de la producción es $80….
“So what does it mean that Alabama and Mississippi are worse?”
The public schools are from the dregs of Mississippi.
Mississipi resolved federal lawsuits simply by ceasing to fund public schools. Taxes went down and normal people could afford very good quality private schools.
It’s like charter schools, but without government intervention.
These tests were only for public schools.
The sad side of this is the MS public schools are something like 80% black student population.
Nope, not the issue. There is a two-tiered system in Mississippi.
Almost all normal kids go to private school.
Are you saying the state of Mississippi does not fund its own public educational system?
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20091014/NEWS01/910140329/1002/Schools-sacrifice
No, I am stating that Mississippi wisely kept school taxes cheap so normal people can opt-out of public schools system, an interesting by-product of the “segregation academy” days.
Here is an article that is (wrongly) critical of the white-flight from the public schools, but which contains some of the numbers (just first find on Bing; I am sure there are better articles):
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3626/is_200504/ai_n14900755/
“This article identifies the barriers to educational integration in one Mississippi Delta town. Throughout the Mississippi Delta region, there are predominantly White private academies located in close proximity to predominantly Black public schools. Although de facto segregation among students exists throughout the country, the segregation in the Mississippi Delta is different. Specifically, many White students attend private academies that do not offer greater educational opportunity [A LIE, AS THE BLACKS ARE EXTREMELY HOSTILE TO WHITES] than the predominantly Black public schools. More than 40 individuals in Delta County were interviewed in order to identify the specific barriers to educational integration.”
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