Courtesy of Education Weekly
Click Image to enlarge and you will see that Delaware is one island of orange in a sea of green. Our neighbors by dragging their feet on educational reform and slowing the advent of Common Core, were able to stem the tide better than us, who against all expert opinion rushed headfirst into Common Core curriculum and it has cost us.
Name one family of executives who looking at this map, would still want to settle in Delaware? In Cecil County? Maybe. In Salem County? Maybe. In Chester County? Maybe… But certainly not any of Delaware’s three counties unless only it was absolutely necessary.
This downward slide was predicted and is now upon us. Notice Kentucky, which rushed into Common Core. Notice Tennessee, the other Race To The Top Winner. Notice Florida, which is undergoing Jeb Bush’s reforms.
Compare that to states that did not jump on Common Core. Wyoming. Minnesota, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut…
If you want exact proof that Common Core is the sole reason that the slippage occurred, notice Rhode Island, once green is now, like Delaware… orange… Both state’s secretaries sat on the board of Chiefs for Change… Both were gung-ho in their implementation of Common Core.
These are the real results. These are not speculation. Common Core is destroying the very fabric of education… states following it are crashing and burning; states that said “no thank you, we’ll see how it works first”, are doing just fine…
This is Sokola’s and Jacques’ fault. The governor often criticized, is just an enabler. These two wrote the legislation that pulled the rugs out from underneath Delaware’s parents. Delaware’s teachers, and Delaware’s schools… Those two individuals, are responsible for the entire slide of Delaware’s educational excellence shown on this map…
To get ourselves back in line with our peers we need to do the following.
- Eliminate the Smarter Balanced Assessment.
- Eliminate all Common Core Curriculum attachments
- Eliminate Dave Sokola and Earl Jacques in 2016.
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March 22, 2015 at 7:39 pm
Kevin Ohlandt
Reblogged this on Exceptional Delaware and commented:
But I thought Delaware was going to have the best education system in the world. That’s what Paul and Jack told us…
March 23, 2015 at 5:14 am
minnehanh
and are they educators? I think not………….
March 23, 2015 at 9:29 am
kavips
What is sad, is that when they said that, it really could have been so.. It really could have been… But they blew it.. BIG TIME!
March 23, 2015 at 4:23 pm
anonymous
Quality Counts
Kavips. You have presented a Chart with almost half of the lower portion missing, plus a portion of the top missing. That is always a no-no. That could have been avoided if you had reference the complete Chart instead of ‘your’ chart. Also the linkable functions of your representation of the Chart – do not work. But you ask readers to click your partial image just the same. Your image only shows the “Overall Grade & Score (2015) and a partial list of states. But if a reader clicks “Education Weekly, (appearing in blue under the Chart,) they will see the entire chart and all of its’ intended data.
Overall Grade & Score (2015) De 76.7 (an improvement)
Chance for Success (2015) De 78.5 (better outlook)
School Finance (2015) De 83.2 (among the higher ranking))
K-12 Achievement (2014) DE 68.5 (below average)
The proper Chart also has an operational Link – “FAQ: What Do These Indicators Mean?,” which is not operational on kavips’ chart. That portion of the Chart shows a Grading Calculator with interesting DE information.
In 2014 DE ranked 30, with D+. In 2015 DE ranked 15, at 76.7, a C+
Delaware has gone up in rank from 30 in 2014, to 15 in 2015. Delaware has gone up from a D+ to a C+ in one year. Also Delaware Finance is among he higher performers, yet DE has the lowest grade C+ in that Finance grouping.
A non functional/portion of a chart is never presented as the complete reliable illustration of data which it was produced to relate.
March 24, 2015 at 9:22 am
kavips
Thank you for your interest. As you can see….
(I have asked Education Week to change the mis-label stating 2013 which should read 2015; they are in the process of review).
This comparison clearly shows that since the overhanded implementation of Common Core, we have seen score slippage in Delaware and in many other heavy Common Core states. States coming late to Common Core actually show improvement, since their damage has not yet been done, whereas Delaware is sliding forever backwards… We are an island of Orange in a sea of green… The next two geographically orange states are West Virginia and North Carolina… Not the company we’d want to keep when comparing ourselves to other states in education…
Go back and look at your comparisons. You compared two different categories between the two years. You compared the overall grade of Delaware in 2015 with the subcategory “Chance To Succeed, 2014”, weighted to reflect only one third of the grade and said your comparison of those 2 numbers showed improvement.
If we correct your flaw, we see that in that single category of “Chance to Succeed”, Delaware went from green to orange. A drop of 1.3% to be precise. This means Delaware children under today’s Common Core Curriculum have a poorer chance to succeed, than they did prior before Common Core was given a foothold, which then went on to take over the whole playing field.
As for printing a full chart… if it doesn’t fit on a page, I link to it… You found it therefore proving it works…
I appreciate that.
March 25, 2015 at 7:57 am
anonymous
Too Much Variation Between the States’ Ratings, To Be Acceptable.
The real point made by these charts is – the education results vary too much from state to state regardless of the year. And that may be the point of common core – to say that achieving a certain grade, means kids should be given an equal opportunity to learn and be graded by the same standards. But instead, look at the many state results and see, things are not equal.. MA has an 86.2; DE a 76.7 and MS a 64.2 That is illustration enough, that things aren’t balanced. And one would speculate, that the learning gap of traditional public schools are responsible for a long history of such unbalanced learning results.
And that could also mean a child might end up with a D in English because one had a lousy teacher, but if one had an excellent teacher, the same child could earn an B+, if teachers were put to the test.
Look at the ‘real’ Charts you reference kavips, not partial ones you keep cutting and pasting to show your desired results. Look at the differences in the states’ test results. What has caused the wide gap in learning between top performer MA at 86.2 and lowest, MS at 64.2? ( MA (A-) down to a MS (D)) That’s unacceptable. Clue: And it wasn’t common core’s fault. It seems traditional public education has been generating this spectrum of child learning results.
Your second choice of charts shows that you continue to draw conclusions from a referenced source you claim is faulty, It would be a huge mistake if Education Week were using the wrong data from the wrong year to produce Charts, as kavips claims is true. Huge.
Kavips is the person who printed a post on – lying when feeling threatened by common core (and a list of other occasions.) So when is one to know if kavips is or isn’t telling the truth??? Such a post on how and when to lie, blows credibility on any ‘threatening’ subject – especially anything having anything to do with kavips’ opinion of common core.
See, that’s the problem with being known as one who lies on a given subject. It damages the overall argument, whether it’s right or wrong, because one first has to first decide, is this an occasion when kavips is telling a lie or the truth???? Because it’s a subject kavips admits she/he should lie about.
Overall Grade and Score 2015 uses illustrated results labeled 2013. Chance for Success 2015, uses labeled 2013 illustrated results. School Finance for 2015, uses labeled 2013 results. The K-12 Achievement for 2014 on the State Report Card Chart, uses labeled 2012 illustrated results of D+ at 68.5 while another Chart called Grading Summary shows Delaware K-12 Achievement for 2014 as D+ 68.5. Is the Grading Summary Chart wrong based on 2012 results, as well? Who knows.
If such is the case, in the real world, no one submits technical illustrations for publication that wrong, without expecting to be fired. One should have no confidence and draw no conclusion from any kavips’ bogus charts and kavips’ references to said faulty charts until such time the data is officially corrected, (which it has not been to date.) And even then, one could say, that’s the outfit that publishes false results.
But an ongoing huge gap in ALL the states’ ratings, if that’s continuous and so great – is believable – that there is something very wrong with public education.
So little green, soooo much orange.
March 25, 2015 at 1:19 pm
anonymous
Sooo much more orange. So much need of improvement.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2015/2015-state-report-cards-map.html