Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Students Lose
(PDF) - The past year has seen unprecedented attention paid to the nation’s
public high schools.
MI
Facts About Special Education in Michigan April 2005 from the Office of Special
Education and Early Intervention Services -
click here (PDF)
Special Report:
Data-Driven Decision-Making
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Data-driven decision-making, which involves the
collection and analysis of test results, demographic information, and other
student data to make more informed decisions about instruction--and, given
the stringent requirements of NCLB, it's a practice that is no longer an
option for today's school leaders, but a necessity.
Featured Website:
National Center
for Education Statistics - NCES is the
primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to
education in the United States. You can easily search for public and private
schools in your area and learn all about them, find college information
online, and locate public libraries. A goldmine of data.
Working Hard, Falling Short:
9.2 Million Families Barely
Getting By - On October 12, 2004 a 36 page
report titled: Working Hard, Falling Short -
America's Working Families and the Pursuit of Economic Security was
released by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations. It
shows that 9.2 million working families in the
United States - one out of every four - earn wages that are so low they are
barely able to survive financially. 20 million
children are in these low-income working families.
TX
State Undercounts Dropouts, Expert Says -
Boston professor says Texas should look at completion numbers. Annual school
ratings surged over the past decade in Texas with the help of a faulty
formula used to count dropouts, a Boston College professor said Tuesday
during a court challenge to the state's school finance system. [Free
login/registration required to view this article.]
MI
Detroit Population
Still in Top 10, but Falling - Six of Michigan's
largest population centers rank in the top 200 in the nation,
with Detroit No. 10; but according to a U.S. Census report
released Thursday, people continue to leave the city and
others.
U.S.
Website Promises
Easy Access to School Data - Federal, state and
private education leaders launched a Web site Thursday that promises
unprecedented access to information about public school performance.
MI Michigan
Child Welfare:
Serving Special Kids - For
the first time, report includes disabled children; parents say
it's difficult to get them the help they need. One in eight
Michigan youths has a disability that interferes with their
ability to learn, go outside the home alone, see, hear or move
about, according to the Kids Count in Michigan Data Book
released today.
MI
2003 Michigan School Health Services Report
Now Available Online - A survey was administered to
schools in the Spring of 2002 to K-12 schools to assess school
health services in schools. The
document is at the Educational Materials Website at
www.emc.cmich.edu.
MI
How to Use the 2003
Michigan Kids Count DataBook (Book coming
1/2004) - (PDF; size=23k) Learn
about Kids Count Data from the 2000 census. This year's data book also
includes county information on children with disabilities and
information on lead poisoning, birth defects, hospitalizations for
asthma, and children receiving special education and supplemental
security income. For more information, contact Jane Zehnder-Merrell:
800-837-5436.
The Michigan Department of
Education keeps basic home school counts, but home schools are not
required to report to MDE.
Washington City Group on Disability Statistics - The Washington
City Group on Disability Measurement was formed as a result of the
United Nations International Seminar on Measurement of Disability that
took place in New York in June 2001. An outcome of that meeting was
the recognition that statistical and methodological work was needed at
an international level in order to facilitate the comparison of data
on disability cross-nationally. Consequently, the United Nations
Statistical Division authorized the formation of a City Group to
address some of the issues identified in the International Seminar and
invited the National Center for Health Statistics, the official health
statistics agency of the United States, to host the first meeting of
the group. The City Group format is one that has been used by the U.N.
in numerous other occasions to address various problems in survey
measurement and methodology, such as the Rio Group, which focuses on
poverty statistics.
