the public education top 10

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The Public Education Top 10Patte Barth

Director, Center for Public Education


10 years of the Center for Public Education

Provide evidence-based research and analysis on education issues and present it ways that are useful to public schools and school board governance


Top 10 Good Things

#10 Modernized Career Technical Education


High school grads with high credentials do welleven with no college

• Algebra 2 & advanced biology

• GPA of at least C+

• An occupational concentration – 3 or more courses in a specific labor

market area)

• Professional certification or license

SOURCE: CPE, The path least taken, Part 2, 2015


High school grads with high credentials do welleven with no college

college goers

PLUS C+ or better GPA

PLUS Advanced Biology

PLUS Algebra 2

PLUS occupational concentration

PLUS professional license

low credentialed grad

0 5 10 15 20 25

16.71

19.71

19.38

18.62

16.5

14.51

10.28

Hourly wages at age 26

SOURCE: CPE, The path least taken, Part 2, 2015


Fastest growing occupational clusters

• Information technology: +23%

• Health science: +21%

• Human services: +19%

• Law, public safety, corrections, security: +14%

• Education and training: +14%SOURCE: NASD of CTE consortium, 2010. estimated growth 2008-2018


Top 10 Good Things

# 9 Robust data systems



In 2005, few states had effective data systems Most states collected onlyenrollment, test scores andGraduation/drop outs

A small handful had data on course-taking or could match data across sectors

SOURCE: Data Quality Campaign, 2011


By 2011, nearly every state did 36 states had data systemswith all 10 essential elements;all had at least 7

40+ states promote datatraining to principals/teachers

110 state data privacy laws wereintroduced; 30 passed

SOURCE: Data Quality Campaign, 2011


Top 10 Good Things

# 8 High-quality pre-kindergarten




Enrollments in state-funded pre-K have doubledin last decade

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 20140

35

1417

20

24

28 28 29

Percent of 4-yr-olds in state pre-k

SOURCE: NIEER, 2014

Including Head Start and special

needs enrollments,

42% of all 4-yr-olds were in

publicly funded pre-k in 2014


Program quality has improved

SOURCE: NIEER, 2014

Quality benchmark Percent of state programs2002

Percent of state programs2014

Teacher with BA 45 57

Specialized training 74 85

Assistant with CDA 24 34

15 hours+ in-service training 64 81

Early learning standards 36 100

Class size 20 or lower 74 85

Adult/student ratio 1:10 or better 71 87

Screening/referral 52 66

At least 1 meal 50 47

Site visits 70 62


Top 10 Good Things

# 7 The reading performance of English language learners





ELL population has doubled since 1998

1998 2015

Proportion of student population 4% 10%

4th-graders performing at Basic or better 21% 32%

SOURCE: NCES, NAEP-Reading 2015


Gap between ELL and non-ELL narrowing but still wide

SOURCE: NCES, NAEP-Reading 2015

1998 2000 2002 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015150

270

174

189

217 226

NAEP-Reading Gr 4, 1998-2015

ELL non-ELL

43 pts

37 pts

What’s working ….

• Access to pre-k

• Research-based practices

• Bilingual teachers


Top 10 Good Things

# 6 College going

# 7 The reading performance of English language learners





Two-thirds of all grads go immediately to college

1973 1983 1993 2003 20130

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6468 67

4138

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6057

49 47

56 58

66

Percent recent high school completers enrolled in 2- or 4-yr college following Oc-tober

White Black Hispanic

SOURCE: NCES, 2014


Colleges need to think about supports for their growing enrollments• About 60% of first-time freshmen at 4-year colleges earn a BA in six

years

• About 30% of degree/certificate seeking freshmen at 2-year colleges complete the program within 150% of expected time

SOURCE: NCES, 2014


Top 10 Good Things

# 5 Elementary Secondary Education Act


ESEA: an historic law

• First passed in 1965, it advanced education as a civil right

• Recognized that poor children needed more resources in order to fulfill American promise of equal opportunity

• 1994 Reauthorization and 2001’s NCLB introduced the expectation that poor children will be taught to the same standards as their peers


Its new redo: Every Student Succeeds Act

• Passed with significant bipartisan support

• Recognizes the importance of local governance and community ownership of public schools

• Facilitates greater flexibility and local innovation for student achievement


Its new redo: Every Student Succeeds Act

• Accountability plans drafted by states with local involvement

• AYP and 100% proficiency goal – gone

• ‘Ambitious state-designed long term goals’• State-designed index factors including

academic, non-academic and school factors

• State-designed college-career ready standards


Top 10 Good Things

# 4 High-level high school course-taking



Many more students take high-level math & science

1990 2000 2005 2009

57

77

4440

71

White African American Latino

percent of high schoolers taking Algebra 2/Trig

SOURCE: NCES, High School Transcript Study 1990–2009; NSF science & engineering indicators, 2012

High school grads now earn an average 3.5 science credits –- up from 2.8 in 1990

70% of the class of 2009 took advanced chemistry

14% had AP/IB science


Public high schools offer more rigorous choices

• 69% of all public high schools offer AP/IB• 82% offer courses for dual high school/post-secondary credit

• Only 55% of rural high schools have AP/IB• 25% of public schools do not offer chemistry• 11% of public schools do not offer Algebra 1

SOURCES: NCES, 2013 (2010 data); OCR, 2014


Top 10 Good Things

# 3 Math achievement




4th & 8th graders have gained 2+ yrs learning

grade 4 grade 8

29

19

NAEP math gains, 1990-2015Internationally …

4th graders outperformed by only 7 out of 60 participating nations on TIMSS

8th graders outperformed by 6 out of 56 nations

SOURCES: NCES, TIMSSs, 2011; NAEP, 2015


Math achievement

1972 1980 2005 2014

40 years of SAT math scores1972-2014

509

492

520

513

SOURCE: College Board, Total Group Profile Report, 2012, updated for 2014 data

Test-takers doubled since 1972

More diverse – 51% white

36% had parents with no college


What about those international rankings?

• US 15-year-olds perform below international average on PISA, which emphasizes problem solving and applications

• Changes in math standards and instruction in recent years may improve our standing in next PISA administrations


Top 10 Good Things

# 2 High school graduation





High school graduation at all-time high

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81.486.6

70.775.2

88.7

69.7

Public high school 4-yr graduation rates

Overall White BlackHispanic Asian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaska Native

SOURCE: NCES, adjusted cohort graduation rates, public high schools, 2013


High school graduation at all-time high

• Gains largely driven by performance of black and Latino students –

rates rose an incredible 7 and 12 points respectively since 2008

• Number of so-called ‘drop out factories’ fell from 2,007 in 2002 to

1,146 in 2013

SOURCES: NCES, 2013; Grad Nation, 2014


Top 10 Good Things

# 1 Public school still the school of first choice

# 2 High school graduation





The public supports public schools

For 40 years, about 9 in 10 students attended public schools

• 10% of school-age students attend private schools

• 3% are homeschooled

SOURCE: CPE, School Choice, 2015


The public supports public schoolsPublic schools are not one size fits all!

• 4% of school-age students attend public magnet schools

• 4% are in public charter schools

• 10% are in other public schools of choice

• Uncounted number in-school programs of choice

SOURCE: CPE, School Choice, 2015


Public Agenda found that most parents don’t want

districts to close neighborhood schools for low

performance. Instead they want leaders to “fix the

school they have.”


1 Public school is 1st choice

2 High school graduation

3 Math achievement

4 High-level course-taking

5 ESEA

6 College going

7 ELLs and reading

8 High-quality pre-kindergarten

9 Robust data systems

10 Modernized CTE

Top 10 Good Things


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