Tag: Graduation

• Decade of Education Outcome Data: Texas vs. California vs. New York vs. Nation

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  September 27, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, Announcements, High-Stakes Testing, Higher Education Access, Latina/os

  Today we are pleased to release the report Is Texas leading its peers and the nation?: A Decadal Analysis of Educational Data. The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin commissioned a policy this report in the spring of 2012 to examine education data for the state of Texas,…

  

• Bad Apples?: Accountability, AYP, and Cheating

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  August 10, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  I gave another interview on the cheating scandal in El Paso (1,2,3) yesterday. The question that often arises is this only a case of bad apples? The research literature has long shown serial dishonesty in Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) publicly reported dropout and graduation numbers (See for example IDRA; Losen, Orfield, & Balfanz, 2006; Vasquez Heilig & Darling-Hammond) suggesting…