Tennessee releases 2012 district-level TCAP data

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The Tennessee Department of Education has released 2012 TCAP results at the district level; ECF has posted that data in the form of an interactive chart comparing poverty versus reading proficiency in grades 3-8, as well as in PDF charts for East, Middle, and West Tennessee. The state will soon be releasing school-level performance data; stay tuned for ECF charts once that information is available.

Dresden Elementary School

2013 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner:   [custom_frame_left shadow=”on”][/custom_frame_left] Mike Laughrey, Dresden Elementary School First Place, West Division, Elementary Schools Mike Laughrey, Principal Dresden Elementary School 759 Linden Street, #B Dresden, TN 38225 Weakley County Schools Visit website   (Additional pictures below)   Materials related to the Dresden Elementary recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Dresden Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a chart that shows other schools by name PDF of … Read More

School Performance in Alabama

Alabama: Comparing schools and districts based on student proficiency The information below reflects the most recent data available to us; please contact us with questions or to request additional analyses. The charts linked below allow you to compare schools and districts in Alabama with their peers. The Y (vertical) axis shows the percentage of proficient 3rd graders in a subject; the X (horizontal) axis shows the percentage of students who qualify for the free or reduced rate lunch program, … Read More

Direct Instruction Resources

For those interested in learning more about DI The Education Consumers Foundation has made available a great deal of information for those wishing to see real and dramatic improvements in reading proficiency rates. The resources below will help educators, legislators, school board leaders and others to learn more about Direct Instruction.   DI Policy Briefing Progress in reading proficiency rates has stalled: Tennessee has seen a move of just three points (on a 500-point scale) over the past … Read More

ECF releases charts showing 3rd grade reading performance in key TN districts

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Testing outcomes of the past 20 years show that less than half of Tennessee’s school children are mastering reading by the end of the 3rd grade. At some metropolitan schools, less than 10% of students are proficient.  Click on the links below to see whether children in some of the largest metropolitan areas of the state are reading or just being promoted:   Anderson and Blount 2012 2013 2014 2015 Hamilton County 2012 2013 2014 2015 Knox County 2012 2013 2014 2015 Memphis 2012 2013 Nashville 2012 2013 2014 2015 East of Nashville 2012 2013 2014 2015 West of Nashville 2012 2013 2014 2015 … Read More

Needed: Truth in Grading

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It is a disappointment when a child does poorly in school.  It becomes a tragedy, however, when a child and his parents are not told the truth. Every year, hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school students are tested and found to lack minimum skills despite having been promoted from grade to grade. Many have been socially promoted, i.e., moved ahead despite poor marks. Most, however, are the victims of grade inflation: They were awarded letter grades … Read More

2012 Winners

2012 Value-Added Achievement Awards In a May 14, 2012 ceremony held at the Tennessee Supreme Court, Education Consumers Foundation President J. E. Stone presented awards of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 to Tennessee’s highest performing elementary and middle school principals. (You can see rankings of every elementary school here, and of every middle school here.) Recipients were selected on the basis of their school’s most recent 3-year average achievement gains in math and reading/language arts. Only those principals with 5 or … Read More

For Media

About the Education Consumers Foundation The Education Consumers Foundation (ECF) is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation chartered in Tennessee. It is a spin-off of the Education Consumers ClearingHouse (ECC)—an online consumer organization founded in 1995.  ECF is dedicated to representing the interests of parents. taxpayers, and their elected representatives.  Its mission is to improve public education outcomes through the use of research and policy analysis.  ECF is like Consumer Reports but focused primarily on education policy, practice, and outcomes.   … Read More

For Activists

American Decline can be Reversed through Grassroots Action Public education has been decaying on the inside for decades. Educators blame poverty, poor parenting, changing demographics, the growth of hedonistic popular culture, insufficient funding, and myriad other factors. Seldom mentioned, however, is education’s failure to adapt and overcome these conditions. In the view of most educators, schools are doing all they can–an explanation that is contradicted by the measurable differences in effectiveness among teachers within the same school and … Read More

Current Members

The current member list of the Education Consumer Consultants Network Harold A. Black, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Finance Haslam College of Business University of Tennessee hblack@utk.edu Wayne Bishop, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics California State University-Los Angeles wbishop@calstatela.edu William L. Brown, Ph.D. Coordinator of Test Development Michigan Education Assessment Program bbainc@sbcglobal.net Tom Burkard, B.A. Honors Director The Promethean Trust Norwich, England burkard@tiscali.co.uk Louis Chandler, Ph.D. Professor & Chairman Department of Psychology in Education University of Pittsburgh … Read More

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