2010 DC CAS Scores Online

[Anonymous]

I think it was supposed to be sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know why the "target" for elementary schools for reading was something like 73% proficient? Wasn't it 50% last year? That seems like a huge jump.

Our scores went way up for reading and math, but not quite that far so we didn't make AYP. Very depressing. Because I think they pushed the kids about as much as you could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why the "target" for elementary schools for reading was something like 73% proficient? Wasn't it 50% last year? That seems like a huge jump.

Our scores went way up for reading and math, but not quite that far so we didn't make AYP. Very depressing. Because I think they pushed the kids about as much as you could.

Please read 10:04.

[Anonymous]

I see. So the math score at our school went from the 30s to the 60s and the reading score went from the high 40s to nearly 70. And yet our school did not make AYP. It almost feels like "just forget it" because next year the levels will be even higher. As my child goes up a grade not only does the material get harder, but the test gets harder and then the bar for "passing" is raised as well. A 30 point jump in both reading and math means nothing in this environment, I guess.

I feel very bad for the teachers and principal who sweat blood to coax every child into the best that they could do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see. So the math score at our school went from the 30s to the 60s and the reading score went from the high 40s to nearly 70. And yet our school did not make AYP. It almost feels like "just forget it" because next year the levels will be even higher. As my child goes up a grade not only does the material get harder, but the test gets harder and then the bar for "passing" is raised as well. A 30 point jump in both reading and math means nothing in this environment, I guess.

I feel very bad for the teachers and principal who sweat blood to coax every child into the best that they could do.

Wow, 30-point plus growth in reading and math? Erase to the Top!

[Anonymous]

You got that backwards at Oyster:

The disabled went way in scores up from16% to 38.46%
Blacks went down from 77.78 to 72.78
Hispanics went up a fraction of a point to 69.59
Whites went down from 94.73 to 88.17

As for judging a principal who was not a crony of Rhee's - I wouldn't use scores to judge a principal period.

it is Rhee who demands higher scores as proof of teacher and principal competence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You got that backwards at Oyster:

The disabled went way in scores up from16% to 38.46%
Blacks went down from 77.78 to 72.78
Hispanics went up a fraction of a point to 69.59
Whites went down from 94.73 to 88.17

As for judging a principal who was not a crony of Rhee's - I wouldn't use scores to judge a principal period.

it is Rhee who demands higher scores as proof of teacher and principal competence.

Rhee, Fenty, Duncan, and Obama and Ted Kennedy, RIP, author of NCLB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You got that backwards at Oyster:

The disabled went way in scores up from16% to 38.46%
Blacks went down from 77.78 to 72.78
Hispanics went up a fraction of a point to 69.59
Whites went down from 94.73 to 88.17

As for judging a principal who was not a crony of Rhee's - I wouldn't use scores to judge a principal period.

it is Rhee who demands higher scores as proof of teacher and principal competence.

Rhee, Fenty, Duncan, and Obama and Ted Kennedy, RIP, author of NCLB.

I don't miss that old sexual predator one bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's important to understand that AYP is a moving target. The percentage of students that need to be proficient in reading and math increases every year. Eventually, if NCLB isn't revised or discarded, nearly every school in the U.S. will fail to meet AYP, because, despite what you hear about Lake Wobegon, there is no school where all of the children are above average.

They don't have to be above average to meet AYP. Proficiency means meeting the minimum requirements for math and reading at grade level. I don't think it's outrageous to require schools to prove their students are on grade level. Social promotion has left too many 9th graders reading on the 2nd grade level. And then we wonder why they drop out of school after repeating the 9th grade 3 times. If you catch it early in the 3rd grade you won't end up with a drop out in the 9th!

[Anonymous]

I think it is too bad we don't get overall credit for improving scores. That's a real bummer.

[Anonymous]

Your numbers cant be right b/c any increase of that size would qualify you for meeting AYP through safe harbor. Safe harbor is met when there is a 10% decrease in the amount of non proficient students......

[Anonymous]

a 10% decrease of non proficient even in a school that is 0 % proficient is only 10% and 30 is way past that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You got that backwards at Oyster:

The disabled went way in scores up from16% to 38.46%
Blacks went down from 77.78 to 72.78
Hispanics went up a fraction of a point to 69.59
Whites went down from 94.73 to 88.17

As for judging a principal who was not a crony of Rhee's - I wouldn't use scores to judge a principal period.

it is Rhee who demands higher scores as proof of teacher and principal competence.

Oyster principal = wife of friend (and employee) of Fenty's. I hope all the people behind the leveraging of this woman into this position are terribly, terribly ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if you got a new principal that you liked who wasn't a Rhee crony and the scores went down again?

Ha! Impossible!

"Scores going down" is a *bad* thing. Badness is the presence of Evil and an absence of Good. Since Rhee is the embodiment of all Evil in the universe, where her presence to be removed from this city, Badness would be impossible, and all things would be Good once more.

QED.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Well, that's just great, the proficient and advanced scores at the supposedly rising elementary school that I signed my preschooler up for this fall have plummeted from last year's "as good as Oyster" scores. Guess it was cheating or a fluke and now my little DC is hosed. Thanks a lot, illiterate DC school children.