Posted on 11/18/2010 11:59:15 AM PST by nmh
NJDOE News
For More Information Contact the Public Information Office: Allison Kobus Alan Guenther, Director 609-292-1126 For Immediate Release: November 18, 2010
NAEP Results Identify Need for Improvement among New Jersey High School Seniors, Underscore Urgency of Enacting Christie Education Reforms
Acting Education Commissioner Rochelle R. Hendricks announced today that results released today from the statewide grade 12 NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress) pilot test illustrate a clear need for improvement in the reading and math skills of New Jersey’s high school seniors. They provide further evidence of the need for enacting the education reforms put forward by Governor Christie to increase the number of effective teachers for our students, and emphasize results for New Jersey children as the central measurement of success in public education. While New Jersey high school seniors outperformed some of their peers across the country in mathematics on the statewide grade 12 assessment, the first ever conducted of its kind, scores were lower – only average – in reading.
New Jersey is among 11 states that volunteered to participate in the pilot study to receive state-level 12th-grade results. In math, New Jersey students scored higher than students in four states, the same as students in three states, and lower than students in three states. In reading, New Jersey high school seniors scored better than students in two states, the same as students in six states, and lower than students in two states.
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“New Jersey decided in 2009 to participate in this NAEP 12th-grade pilot assessment since we were interested in knowing how our high school seniors perform relative to students in other states – an assessment that was previously unavailable. While these results show that our seniors score well when compared to other participating states in math, the bigger picture is clear in that we must do better,” said Acting Commissioner Hendricks. “This pilot assessment intended to measure what our children have learned after completing our educational system. Though limited in its scope, these results and data will further inform our own evaluations, provide additional insight about where our schools are falling short, and help us determine where we need to focus our efforts.”
In New Jersey, approximately 3,200 high school seniors were assessed in mathematics, and 3,300 in reading in 90 New Jersey public high schools. Nationwide, approximately 100,000 high school seniors participated and attended almost 1,700 schools. The NAEP assessment window for the New Jersey high schools was from the last week in January 2009 through the end of February 2009.
Thirty-nine percent of New Jersey’s students were proficient or above in reading, compared with 37 percent nationally. “Proficient” represents solid academic performance at, or above, grade level. Seventy-four percent of New Jersey’s students had at least basic skills in reading, compared with 73 percent nationally. “Basic” scores show partial mastery of skills that are fundamental for proficient work at grade level, according to NAEP’s scoring scale.
In math, 31 percent of New Jersey’s students were proficient or above, compared with a national average of 25 percent. About 67 percent of New Jersey’s students had acquired at least basic scores in math, compared with 63 percent nationally, according to The Nation’s Report Card: Grade 12 Reading and Mathematics 2009 National and Pilot State Results issued today by the National Center for Educational Statistics under the direction of the National Assessment Governing Board.
The other participating states were: Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and West Virginia. The participating states can use the NAEP results as a common yardstick for comparing grade 12 students in their states with students in the 10 other states that volunteered to administer the test to their students.
NAEP grade-twelve reading results: http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_2009/ NAEP grade-twelve math results: http://nationsreportcard.gov/math_2009/
d’oh
Results:
NAEP grade-twelve reading results:
http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_2009/
NAEP grade-twelve math results:
http://nationsreportcard.gov/math_2009/
It’s over due that ALL parents should have SCHOOL CHOICE!
How many years must we OVER PAY IN TAXES for a FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION?
HOW LONG should we be held HOSTAGE to these LAZY, HAUGHTY TEACHERS that in many cases HATE KIDWS,MOLEST THEM and DUMB THEM DOWN?
Where are the PARENTS ?
WHY is there no uproar over this?
Don’t PARENTS care either?
Sign up for their updates and get involved:
http://www.nj.gov/education/news/2010/1118naep.htm
I received this through my e-mail.
From the state that let Snookie graduate? Who would have thunk it?
If there is a NJ ping list, could you let someone know about this? TIA.
This CAN”T be.
There were (almost) daily tv ads telling us (Philadelphia area, NJ-PA-DE market) about the wonderful NJ public school system and the dedicated teachers and the first grade students they produced.
She’s nothing more than excrement on a dirty sidewalk. She certainly is not representative of or family. We don’t watch trashy shows either.
It didn't seem to have helped, because few of them that graduated were ever able to pass the Bar.
One thing "diversity admissions" did accomplish was that it knocked Tulane from being a "Top 20" Law School to a "Top 50". Its never been able to recover...
I wonder how the results would look if they separated out students who don’t speak *and have no desire to learn)English and those who come from cultural backgrounds that don’t value education?
*and have no desire to learn) = (and have no desire to learn)
She graduated in NY. Only one of the cast members are actually from Jersey. The rest are Staten Island/Long Island trash.
LOL!
UNION PAID ADS?
No, we pay HIGH taxes for CRAP.
AH, wonder no more!
Why isn't “diversity” grand with ENGLISH as a second language? You can go to school and speak Spanish from k-12 with “bilingual” classes. So, you don't have to learn ENGLISH!
Now, let's see:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/stt2009/2010460NP8.pdf
If you scroll down the results are predictable in READING.
Here's the order by RACE:
Whites / Asian were nearly tied
American Indian was third
Hispanics did slightly better than blacks
Blacks as always were LAST.
I know, PUNISH Whites and Asians and throw
MORE $$$$$$$$ at Hispanics and Blacks!!!
Right?
Isn't that the normal course of events?
Pssst It NEVER WORKS!
These kids have to WANT to LEARN.
They need to speak PROPER ENGLISH.
These “diversity” programs have to go!
Now, let's look at Math:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/main2009/2011455.asp
Pretty predictable!
The University or College doesn't have to ACCEPT them. Why we have a government program for everything! yes, if you are Black, Hispanic - male or female - you can still get in.
The government will FORCE them to “accept” you and courtesy of you and me and our tax dollars supply the unacceptable student with TUTORS! Yes, TUTOTRS for any and all subjects they sign up for! Of course YOU will also PAY for their education because they are a “minority”.
Heck, they have to do SOMETHING to get the QUOTA met for "minorities" that would not be ACCEPTED if it wasn't for their RACE. It's ALL ABOUT RACE!
We need to get back to MERIT and let the chips fall where they may. I can't begin to tell you how many incompetent DOCTORS we have out there .... Yes, it "looks like America" but be careful who YOU go to for medical expertise.
What is tragic is there are good competent people such as Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas but they are an anomaly. THEY EARNED WHAT THEY HAVE.
Thanks so much for the links.
This is a large bone I have to pick with Christie. In his budget he decreased state aid to performing schools while increasing aid to non-performing (’diversity’) schools. Non-performing schools in NJ now spend ~ twice the national average per student.
In addition, Christie has no problem with illegal aliens who cost NJ tax payers $3.7 billion per year (up from $2.1 billion) in only three areas: health care, EDUCATION, and incarceration.
He HAS to redistribute YOUR TAX dollars to the “poorer” districts. It's a LAW. If forget the name of it. It's been in place for years. The it's a formula called the Felton or something beginning with “F”. He has no choice in that BUT he could make it more fair.
People in the “poorer” districts don't have the tax dollars so wealthier communities subsidize the “poorer” ones to make up for it. It's a throw back to the “poorer” districts don't do as well because they have LESS RESOURCES and because they don't have much tax money - YOU get to make up for it.
They (liberal politicians) associate “poorer” districts with under performing. It's the economic envy game that just isn't so. Poor kids CAN do as well as others if THEY WANT TO. A “poor” kid taking the same test can do as well if the “poor” kid cares enough and STUDIES.
“In addition, Christie has no problem with illegal aliens who cost NJ tax payers $3.7 billion per year (up from $2.1 billion) in only three areas: health care, EDUCATION, and incarceration.”
THAT pisses me off too. ILLEGALS are draining us and taking our jobs. Newark, Trenton and all the other arm pits in NJ are crawling with ILLEGALS. By a United States Supreme Court law, we ALL have to allow and educate ILLEGAL kids in any school in the U.S. BUT Christie could do something about the ILLEGAL ADULTS and DEPORT THEM and along with them go the ILLEGAL kids.
Soory its the Abbot forula made worse by sh*thead Corzine.
The Inequitability of the Abbott Districts’ Funding Law in New Jersey
© 2004 Frank Badessa
RETURN
edited 1/24/09
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Today, statewide spending for K-12 education in New Jersey averages about $12,000/per child/per year. Spending in Abbott districts exceeds $15,000/ per child and some districts (Asbury Park, Camden) is a high as $17,000 to $18,000 per child. In contrast suburban spending is about $10,000 to $11,000 per child. New Jersey spends more on K-12 public education than any state in the country, by far. In fact, spending in our urban districts is twice the national average (of all schools) and is 30-40% more than New Jersey suburban district spending
(www.nje3.org/articles/battlefield.html).
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The Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act is relatively simple. The law provides for 100 percent state funding of eligible school construction costs in the Abbott districts. School construction projects in non-Abbott districts will be funded at their state aid percentage multiplied by 1.15, or a minimum of 40 percent, whichever is greater.
So why are the suburbs and rural districts paying for their own schools and paying for urban school as well? Aren’t there some business and residents who can pay real estate taxes in cities (www.stopthedebt.com)? In Vineland, Cumberland County the tax rate has not increased in over ten years due to the Abbott funding, is this parity among all New Jersey schools? (Personal Interview).
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One reference to read through
Abbott Reform: Is It About Civil Rights, or Funding? (http://www.nje3.org).
We need to get rid of this funding formula. It makes NO SENSE to spend OODLES more on “poor” districts and let better performaing districts suffer and oay MORE for their own district and get LESS for it.
Was just about to tell you it’s the Abbott formula when I read your next post. Thanks for the detailed info on the law.
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