There are limits to which SAT scores can be used to measure school performance. Kids who don't plan to go to college, for whatever reason, don't, as a whole, take the test. Nit the best scholarship to make broad conclusions based on performance data from self-selected groups.
Penn Live: 50 WORST school districts in Pa. Mine checks in at #13. Yours??
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There are limits to which SAT scores can be used to measure school performance. Kids who don't plan to go to college, for whatever reason, don't, as a whole, take the test. Nit the best scholarship to make broad conclusions based on performance data from self-selected groups.
Because special needs students have lower ratios of teacher to student. And these are mandated by state law. More special needs kids translates into lower performing district.
It does not matter. Problem schools will fail with either model. Plenty of other variables.
The problem is systemic. Like a few posters have stated a high % of failing students come from failing families. There are many failing families in the Urban arena. I observe this sad dilemma everyday. By the way I did not see the Harrisburg School district mentioned. I would venture to say that this school district should be in the top 10 at least. They recently had 45 teachers resign as a result of the prevalent violence at the high school. It is simply "FAILING FAMILIES". Ill equipped people having children that they should not be having. Birth Control measures should be implemented immediately. Or call the Government of China they may have some ideas.
Wow, Panther Valley comes in with a 42% grad rate. That is horrific anyway you slice it. I can't imagine over half my class not being there by the end of 12th grade.
Problem is liberals don't want to address ANY of the problems YOU listed.
You have violent students from violent neighborhoods who are raised in 0 or 1 parent homes. DEMs blame testing, NCLB, funding and a hundred other excuses.
Liberal policies even reward people having kids they don't even want. Don't give them a tax credit. TAX them like they do in China.
Fresh Prince did not flee Philly to get away from standardized testing.
I'm on board with losing the child tax credit, but not sure about taxing extra to have a kid. Can't get blood from a stone and all that. And to shoot back at the political slant of your argument, republican anti-abortion and anti planned parenthood policies are causing more kids to be born into the violent neighborhoods allowing more tax credits to be given out.
Honestly would like to hear what policies would you recommend to fix generational poverty and help kids achieve at a high level when coming from broken homes with as you say 0 or 1 parent. Can't have'em all working at McD's as within the next 10 years that'll be a robot's job:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...lipping-robot-replaces-humans-first-day-work/
Many of the NCAA Football and Basketball athletes come from these so called failing school districts and like I stated earlier "failing Families." PSU passes over many potential participants in search of the correct fit. Sometimes they get it wrong. I never intend to talk in 100%'s but many NCAA athletes today are these same kids with low proficiencies in Math, Science, etc... The big difference is 40 years ago these students would not be accepted into college. Today these kids are. The standards of the past have been targeted by those who shout from roof tops that things are unfair. What you end up getting is what we have today in both public schools and college. The expectations have been completely eroded due to the left. I wonder sometime how many great high school athletes of the past never played college ball because they did not meet the academic standards. The student athlete of today is not the student athlete of yesteryears. If you can't see this then you must be blind. The landscape of college sports has changed. You can determine if it is for the good or bad. By the way how many sexual assaults are being reported MSU covered up to protect the new type of student athlete.
I blame it all on “rock and roll”!
I find it ironic that while discussing the failure of the educational system that many use the term “ sarcastic” when I think they mean “ ironic”.
According to my Funk and Wagnalls the definition of “irony” is “use of words to convey the opposite of their litteral meaning.”
The definition of “sarcasm” is “[a] mocking or contemptuously ironic remark intended to wound another.” Who do you want to wound?
My high school is rated in the low 20’s.
I find it ironic that while discussing the failure of the educational system that many use the term “ sarcastic” when I think they mean “ ironic”.
According to my Funk and Wagnalls the definition of “irony” is “use of words to convey the opposite of their litteral meaning.”
The definition of “sarcasm” is “[a] mocking or contemptuously ironic remark intended to wound another.” Who do you want to wound?
My high school is rated in the low 20’s.
It is not so much the failing of the educational system but failing families. These failing families our everywhere with higher concentrations in the inner city's. The failing family unit has caused our government to play the role of parents if you will in multiple ways. One of these ways is lowering educational expectations. So all have a chance in the name of fairness. In reality there are many people are having children and some shouldn't. The blame rests with these failing families . This problem only continues to compound itself.
Only 50% of the school's rankings actually come from "academics" according to the methodology. 15% is teachers. 10% is for parent student surveys and also "diversity and culture." Then they work their way through other factors down to 2.5% each for sports and clubs. I don't see Reading or Chester doing any better than Keystone Central or Turkeyfoot Valley on the diversity score.
As far as spending per student, that probably includes all sources, including local and state spending.
Panther Valley is also arguing that some faulty stats were used in the survey because their graduation rate is closer to 75%, not 42%.
As far as spending per student, that probably includes all sources, including local and state spending.
Panther Valley is also arguing that some faulty stats were used in the survey because their graduation rate is closer to 75%, not 42%.
