Tag: ACGR

• Uncovering Lies and Damn Lies in @ArneDuncan Graduation Rates

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  May 7, 2014

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  Wisdom

  Has your state experienced a meteoric rise in its graduation rate since Arne Duncan’s new graduation standards went into effect? Do you think it too good to be true? Nobody likes to be lied to. The latest Arne Duncan sleight of hand is the reporting and trumpeting of graduation rates. The Washington Post related: Calling it…

  

• Stanford and Dropouts: “Perry Makes Galveston Disappear”

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  February 18, 2013

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  Dropout

  Jason Stanford wrote a BRILLIANT piece about Texas supposedly #4 in the nation graduation rates. This is journalist gold. In early January I conducted an analysis of the graduation data via a FOIA request. Clearly the Lone Star State is lying to the feds ala Atlanta and El Paso. Will the feds really allow Texas…

  

• MIA: Haney, Federal Grad Data, and the NCES

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  January 15, 2013

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  Accountability, Dropout, High-Stakes Testing

  The fact that Texas got caught with their pants down and has “enrontized” their federal graduation rates (see ACGR) should not be a surprise. Dr. Walt Haney, an emeritus Boston College Professor well-known for statistically debunking the Texas and Florida educational miracles, emailed me a response to yesterday’s analysis of the Texas graduation data. Here is what he said: Julian:   You have…

  

• Texas Lies to Feds: Enrontize Federal Graduation Data

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  January 14, 2013

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  Accountability, Dropout

  At the end of 2012, with much fanfare Texas trumpeted that its 86% Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) was 4th in the nation. (For more on the ACGR go here). This would be a miraculous achievement for the Lone Star State. As we show in Is Texas leading its peers and the nation?: A Decadal Analysis of…