Answer: They show more evidence, as if any further proof is necessary, that everybody should be skeptical about anything coming out of the NYC Department of Education or the New York State Education Department concerning test scores or incident reports or probably anything else.
From Leonie Haimson, the Executive Director of Class Size Matters:
1-This week marks the beginning of state testing for grades 3-8 in New York. Check out my blog post on why many parents are still opting their children out of these tests-- and why you should consider doing so as well. The exams have no diagnostic value, and have led to an era of damaging test prep, the false branding of too many kids as "failures" and in many schools, the loss of a well-rounded education. And despite the misinformation put out by some administrators, no child will have a lower score entered in his or her record for opting out and no school will lose funding as a result.
2-Meanwhile, the scores of the more reliable low-stakes national exams called the NAEPs were released late last night --- showing that across the country, student achievement has been flat over the past decade, except for a slight increase in 8th grade reading, while test score gaps between low and high performing students have widened.
The results are a huge rebuke to wrongheaded corporate reform agenda of high stakes testing, charter expansion and Common Core standards that has prevailed over this period and that was supposed to lead to more equity and more learning.
Over the last four years, in New York state and NYC, the story is much the same. There have been no significant increases in any subject or grade since 2013, except for a sharp decline in 4th grade math of five points in NY State and seven points in NYC. You can check the NAEP data yourself here, or a summary here. 2-Meanwhile, the scores of the more reliable low-stakes national exams called the NAEPs were released late last night --- showing that across the country, student achievement has been flat over the past decade, except for a slight increase in 8th grade reading, while test score gaps between low and high performing students have widened.
The results are a huge rebuke to wrongheaded corporate reform agenda of high stakes testing, charter expansion and Common Core standards that has prevailed over this period and that was supposed to lead to more equity and more learning.
All this goes to show that my 2016 blog post was correct that the increase in state and city test scores over this period was illusory and that we had entered a new era of state test score inflation. Let's hope this puts an end to the endless Groundhog days of state and city officials holding self-congratulatory press conferences, and articles that assume the rise in test scores is real and could be due to charter school expansion or the Common Core. But I wouldn't count on it. It's too easy for educrats to manufacture signs of improvement when there are none.
Now we go to Gene Mann's The Organizer, where we can see the Queens High School Incident Reports from the last two school years.
I think the world of Middle College and it is a safe school but not one incident in two years? It's a little hard to believe. Same goes for the numbers from just about every school listed below.
From the Organizer:
Below please find the safety reports filed by Queens high schools for the past years. If the number of incidents reported doesn’t seem to match up with your own experience, you see what the problem is.
School
|
School Number
|
2016-2017
|
2017- 2018
|
International High School for Health Sciences
|
236
|
0
|
0
|
Veritas Academy
|
240
|
0
|
0
|
Queens HS for Language Studies
|
241
|
0
|
0
|
Institute for Health Professions
|
243
|
0
|
0
|
Queens Preparatory Academy
|
248
|
1
|
0
|
Queens School of Inquiry
|
252
|
0
|
0
|
Energy Tech
|
258
|
0
|
0
|
Pathways College Preparatory School
|
259
|
0
|
0
|
Frederick Douglass Academy VI
|
260
|
0
|
0
|
Voyages Preparatory (South)
|
261
|
0
|
0
|
Channel View School for Research
|
262
|
0
|
0
|
Flushing International High School
|
263
|
0
|
0
|
Academy of Finance and Enterprise
|
264
|
0
|
0
|
Excelsior Preparatory High School
|
265
|
0
|
0
|
High School of Applied Communication
|
267
|
1
|
1
|
George Washington Carver
|
272
|
1
|
4
|
East-West School of International Studies
|
281
|
0
|
2
|
Preparatory Academy for Writers
|
283
|
2
|
3
|
York Early College Academy
|
284
|
0
|
0
|
World Journalism Preparatory
|
285
|
0
|
0
|
Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria
|
286
|
0
|
0
|
Civic Leadership Academy
|
293
|
0
|
3
|
Pan American International High School
|
296
|
0
|
0
|
Bard High School Early College
|
299
|
0
|
2
|
Academy for Careers in Television and Film
|
301
|
0
|
0
|
Queens HS for Information, Research, and Technology
|
302
|
0
|
0
|
Goddard
|
308
|
0
|
0
|
Academy of Medical Technology
|
309
|
1
|
0
|
Queens Collegiate
|
310
|
1
|
4
|
EPIC HS (South)
|
314
|
0
|
0
|
Business Technology Early College
|
315
|
5
|
4
|
Rockaway Park
|
324
|
0
|
0
|
Cambria Heights Academy
|
326
|
0
|
0
|
Eagle Academy III
|
327
|
2
|
12
|
HS for Community Leadership
|
328
|
0
|
0
|
EPIC HS (North)
|
334
|
1
|
0
|
Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity
|
338
|
0
|
0
|
Jamaica Gateway to the Health Sciences
|
350
|
0
|
0
|
Rockaway Colegiate
|
351
|
0
|
0
|
August Martin
|
400
|
0
|
1
|
Benjamin N. Cardozo
|
415
|
0
|
2
|
John Bowne
|
425
|
0
|
2
|
Francis Lewis
|
430
|
1
|
0
|
Martin Van Buren
|
435
|
3
|
1
|
Forest Hills
|
440
|
7
|
4
|
William Cullen Bryant
|
445
|
0
|
1
|
LIC
|
450
|
0
|
2
|
Newtown HS
|
455
|
0
|
1
|
Flushing
|
460
|
0
|
0
|
Richmond Hill
|
475
|
2
|
1
|
John Adams
|
480
|
1
|
0
|
Grover Cleveland
|
485
|
1
|
0
|
MAST
|
492
|
2
|
0
|
Bayside
|
495
|
1
|
2
|
Humanities and Arts
|
498
|
0
|
1
|
Frank Sinatra
|
501
|
0
|
0
|
InfoTech
|
502
|
1
|
0
|
Hillcrest HS
|
505
|
5
|
9
|
Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College
|
520
|
0
|
0
|
Townsend Harris
|
525
|
0
|
0
|
International High School at LaGuardia Community College
|
530
|
0
|
0
|
Queens Academy
|
540
|
0
|
8
|
HSAB
|
550
|
0
|
0
|
Newcomers HS
|
555
|
0
|
0
|
Robert F. Wagner
|
560
|
0
|
0
|
Queens HS of Teaching
|
566
|
3
|
0
|
Academy of American Studies
|
575
|
0
|
0
|
Baccaulareate School for Global Education
|
580
|
1
|
0
|
Maspeth High School
|
585
|
0
|
0
|
Queens Vocational
|
600
|
0
|
0
|
Aviation
|
610
|
0
|
9
|
Thomas Edison CTE
|
620
|
4
|
9
|
High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and
Architecture
|
650
|
0
|
0
|
Robert F. Kennedy
|
670
|
0
|
1
|
Queens Gateway
|
680
|
0
|
1
|
Queens Metropolitan High School
|
686
|
0
|
6
|
Queens HS for the Sciences
|
687
|
0
|
0
|
High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety
|
690
|
3
|
1
|
Voyages Preparatory
|
744
|
3
|
2
|
Queens Transition Center
|
752
|
14
|
18
|
North Queens Community High School
|
792
|
0
|
0
|
The Young Women's Leadership School
|
896
|
1
|
1
|
5 comments:
Unfortunately, Michael Petrilli's Herculean labors in his "summary" to find something, anything to pin the non-results on is embarrassing.
He thinks the scores have been flat in large part because fourth graders don't know how to use the tablets the exams were given on (which, though probably true, seems the thinnest possible reed upon which to hang some hope that ed reform really, really, really will result in something, someday) and because, well, you know, the Great Recession ten years ago just really sucked for schools (which, it did, but didn't we pour billions of dollars into Common Core, RTTT and testomania over the same period)?
Is Gene Mann honest? My experience says no
Come to Brooklyn, we are the kings of grade fraud.
Why would he make these numbers up?
Incident reports? This is hilarious! The kids walk in and out all day long. Hardly anyone even bothers about the door alarms bleeping. The hallways are filled with bathroom and roads scholars. The same children hang out in the same hallways and stairwells at the same time every day and no one bothers them! Cutting during pm homeroom is rampant. The principal has cut the number of deans and school aides to nothing, so there are no adults walking the halls. The prin patronage mill grows ever longer full of invented jobs and handsome extra pay for the boot lickers. Place is overrun with administrators and admin wannabees. Farina forgot to take her highly incompetent supt. with her when she left. Don't fail too many kids; your Danielson hating, excuse me, rating, will be in jeopardy. Oh yes, I nearly forgot the colleagues who teach not a single class...how do they keep a job, a rating, and a license??? When others teach anywhere from 160 to 300 children per day???
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