A Cradle-to-Career
Focus on Students
June Atkinson, State Superintendent
College and Career Ready
High School
Middle School
Elementary
School
Pre-Kindergarten
2
„ Graduation
„ Federal
„ NC
Rate
Education Budget
Race to the Top Proposal
„ Common
Core Standards
„ ACRE/Accountability
System
71.7%
18%
19% - 93.9%
2008-09:
71.7%
2007-08:
70.3%
2006-07:
69.5%
2008-09 Graduation Rates
by LEA
Legend:
100% - 95%
Yellow
94% - 90%
Blue
89% - 85%
Green
84% - 80%
Red
54.8% - 90.2%
Highland School
of Technology
Graduation Rate Benchmarks
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
2009
2010
2011
2012
Race
to
the
Top
$469 Million
(over 4 years)
$7.8 Billion
RttT
„ State
Success Factors
„ Standards and Assessments
„ Data Systems
„ Great Teachers and Leaders
„ Turning Around the Lowest
Achieving Schools
ACRE: Key Initiatives
• Adoption of Mathematics and English language
arts Common Core standards
• Development of content standards in areas where
there is not a set of Common Core standards
• Development of a comprehensive, balanced
assessment system
• Development of different, richer assessments
• Membership with consortia to do the essential
work
• Adoption of an improved accountability system
Common Core
State Standards
Destination
Analyzing
Re-calculating
Formative
and
Interim
Assessments
Next Steps
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Common core
standards
Assessment to
measure progress
Teacher preparation
and support
Technology tools
Every child a graduate
and college ready
Goal: Institute an accountability
model that improves student
achievement, increases
graduation rates, and closes
achievement gaps
Deeper, Richer
Summative
Assessment
Alignment
New Assessment
System
Development
Goal: Institute an accountability model that
improves student achievement, increases
graduation rates and closes achievement gaps.
Accountability
System
Revision
3
Goal: Institute an accountability model that
improves student achievement, increases
graduation rates and closes achievement gaps.
Proposed Indicators
Student
Performance
Post-Secondary
Readiness
Student
Growth
Graduation
Rates
4
Academic
Course Rigor
Goal: Institute an accountability model that
improves student achievement, increases
graduation rates and closes achievement gaps.
Proposed Uses
(of indicators)
Report
Reward and
Sanction
Target Assistance
5
Goal: Institute an accountability model that
improves student achievement, increases
graduation rates and closes achievement gaps.
Levels at which indicators might be used
Student
Classroom
School
LEA
State
6
Goal: Institute an accountability model that
improves student achievement, increases
graduation rates and closes achievement gaps.
Decisions to be made
Indicators
7
Uses
Levels
Extrapolated Growth Curve
with Median Postsecondary Text Measures
1600
University
1400
Community College
Workplace
Lexile
1200
Citizenship
Undergraduate
Admissions
and Military
1000
800
2
E(L) = 700.0 + 118.7 (Grade-3) - 6.1 (Grade-3)
600
400
200
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Grade (0=K)
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
High School
„ Graduation
Rate
„ College- and Career-Ready
„ End-of-Course Tests
Gateways
Join us at the table….
“We cannot always
build the future for
our youth, but we can
build our youth for the
future.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt