Boones Creek Elementary

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Teresa Leonard, Boones Creek Elementary School Second Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Teresa Leonard, Principal Boones Creek Elementary School 348 Christian Church Road Gray, TN 37615 Washington County Schools Visit website Click here for Teresa Leonard’s Recipe for Success     Materials related to the Boones Creek Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Boones Creek Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a … Read More

ECF Cost Calculator Testimonials

The ECF Cost Calculator: Praise from Educators and Researchers Everyone agrees that good teachers are important to learning; but when you see the dollar amounts brought to light by the Education Consumers Foundation’s online calculator, you begin to appreciate their true economic worth. There are differences of thousands per student and millions per school in the tax burden created by effective and ineffective teachers in the early elementary grades.  Third grade reading skills predict dropouts and minimally qualified … Read More

How Accurate are the Calculator’s Dropout Estimates?

The ECF cost calculator creates a back-of-an-envelope estimate of the tax burden placed on future generations by students who complete their K-12 schooling years either without a high school diploma or with a diploma that leaves them unprepared for college or a career.  As adults, these students will face a lifetime of very limited employment opportunities and a predictable dependence on publicly funded services. Relying on research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and ACT, the calculator forecasts … Read More

Boones Creek Elementary School

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Teresa Leonard, Boones Creek Elementary School Second Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Teresa Leonard, Principal Boones Creek Elementary School 348 Christian Church Road Gray, TN 37615 Washington County Schools Visit website Click here for Teresa Leonard’s Recipe for Success     Materials related to the Boones Creek Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Boones Creek Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a chart that shows … Read More

Andersonville Elementary School

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Beth Roeder, Andersonville Elementary School Third Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Beth Roeder, Principal Andersonville Elementary School 1951 Mountain Road Andersonville, TN, 37705 Anderson County Schools Visit website Click here for Beth Roeder’s Recipe for Success Materials related to the Andersonville Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Andersonville Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a chart that shows other schools by name PDF of … Read More

Zuckerberg’s Folly? Not Really

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The popular view is that the Newark reforms failed.  The New Jersey Department of Education data says otherwise.  Charter schools excelled and the projected reduction in dropouts and unprepared graduates district-wide will benefit taxpayers for years to come. June 17, 2014 – Print School districts and their boards often face seemingly insurmountable opposition to changes that would beneficial to students. Changes that would be upsetting to the established bureaucratic and institutional order are especially challenging, yet there are examples … Read More

Who’s Gaining in the Race to the Top?

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Ten Most Improved States on the Nation’s Report Card, 2011-2013 The fifty states (avg. enrollment ≈ 1M) were ranked like sports teams on the reading and math gains reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Other NAEP participants (enrollment <90K) were excluded. Ranks were scored: 1st place = 10pts, 2nd place = 9pts, . . . , 10th place = 1pt. Tie scores received the same rank and points. First place on all 4 tests = 40pts. … Read More

Reading: Any US School

  How well does your school teach children to read? In every city, state, and district, some schools are far more effective than their demographic peers. These charts will help you to identify them. Charts are based on the most recent publicly available data. Click here for a guide to creating school and district comparison charts.   Alabama (2023) Alaska (2019) Arizona (2021) Arkansas (2022) California (2022) Colorado (2022) Connecticut (2022) Delaware (2022) DC (2022) Florida (2022) Georgia … Read More

School Ranking Charts

Tennessee was the first state to systematically gather and disseminate district and school-level value-added data in 1995.  It was and is the most statistically sophisticated methodology in use.  The Education Consumers Foundation was the first to compile Tennessee’s TVAAS scores into online, interactive and printable graphics that allow users to see schools statewide ranked on the basis of their effectiveness in lifting student achievement.  Since that time, numerous states and school districts have adopted what is essentially the same … Read More

Aligning Teacher Training with Public Policy

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by J. E. Stone Stone, J. E. (2000). Aligning teacher training with public policy. The State Education Standard, 1(1), 35-38.   The American Council on Education (ACE) recently issued a report calling for colleges and universities to either embrace independent assessment of the quality of their teacher education programs or to close them.[1] The Council, which represents American colleges and universities, fears that the weak academic standards maintained by teacher education programs will damage the reputations of their … Read More

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