Analyzing data and developing strategies to raise student performance on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests is the goal for county and city schools, officials said.
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It’s deja vu all over again. State agencies are bracing for deep cuts in the face of dire economic forecasts. This time, the reductions are part of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee’s spending recommendation, which will provide a starting baseline for the budget blueprint lawmakers must approve later this spring. The Legislative Budget Committee imposed […]
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Demand so far has been low for $6,500 scholarships that Mississippi is awarding to parents of special education students to use in private or home schooling. The Mississippi Department of Education has approved 286 students so far, but provided reimbursement for only 131 students. Lawmakers appropriated $3 million, enough for 433 […]
Read More...Mayo: Students’ college preparation must begin before they enter first grade. ??????????
Read More...RePublic pushes K-8 school opening in Jackson to 2017. ??????????
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The title of this article was intriguing. The first part caught my attention (and not in a good way). However, the second part of the title made me want to know more. In Let the Child Cry: How Tears Support Social and Emotional Development, Diana Rivera explores the reasons why human beings cry, why tears […]
Read More...In the same vein as the other assessment results, the following are the PARCC English II assessment results from the 2014-2015 school year ranked by individual school.?? Unlike the Algebra I test results, English II results are straight-forward in they only apply to one school since the course and the end-of-course assessment are only taken […]
Read More...Judging from the interest in the other assessments, I thought perhaps someone might also like to look at the secondary level PARCC end-of-course assessment results for Algebra I. They can be accessed by clicking the following link: 2014-2015 Rankings by MS School ??? PARCC Alg I Assessment However, more caution should be used in examining […]
Read More...I thought some might be interested in examining the statewide growth rankings by individual school for last year???s assessments to measure Kindergarten readiness given at the beginning and the end of the Kindergarten year.?? This information can be viewed by clicking on the following link: 2014-2015 Rankings by Growth MS Kindergarten Readiness Assessment by School […]
Read More...I have compiled the PARCC results for Mississippi in Language Arts and Mathematics for grades 3rd ??? 8th by school and ranked them by percent scoring in the top two levels.?? Using the percent in the top two levels seems to be the preferred method of determining the percent scoring a ???Proficient-type??? score, which is […]
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