"Don't be fooled by AIMS scores or state labels such as "excelling. It (the AIMS) is so basic we can't even use it as a benchmark of quality on a national landscape; people just laugh. If that's where we're setting the bar, we're not a college prep."
Indeed. You can view ASA's TerraNova three year trend of test scores here.
Arizona School For The Arts
You can read the full article here...
Preparatory schools a growing Valley trend
AZ School of the Arts has few special ed students and esl students. They probably have a smaller class size, too, although I'm not sure.
ReplyDeletePrivate schools, for those who can afford them, are wonderful options because class size is often 6-8 kids so your kids are guaranteed attention. Wouldn't it be nice if Arizona supported public education enough for us to keep class size at 20 kids since not all of us can afford private schools?
honeymom
CCUSD Watch seems very interested in overhauling the elementary curriculum. Yet here you've highlighted a wonderful charter in ASA, but it serves grades 6-12.
ReplyDeleteWhat I've not seen is much commentary by this group about the middle or high school curriculum.
Why?
Get Rid of These People in CCUSD
ReplyDelete1) Tacy Ashby
2) Debbie Burdick
3) Kent Frison
BRING IN A NEW ADMINISTRATION!!!!
"Students First... People Always"
ReplyDeleteHORSE MANURE!
Phoenix schools are not college prep. I would agree with that statement. Wish they had a decent charter school in our area.
ReplyDeleteFor Honeymoon I did get our daughter's Terra Nova scores. My daughter scored an overall 97 with 99 in reading, 95 in language arts (I think that was the category), 87 in math and 97 overall. Her school scored a 73 average.
3 year CCUSD parent,
ReplyDeleteCan you email us privately at ccusdwatch@hotmail.com
Thanks!
"What I've not seen is much commentary by this group about the middle or high school curriculum."
ReplyDeleteElementary school is the foundation for learning. Let's start there but I believe our solutions included suggestions for higher grades.
NO. I am not giving you my email address. I am sorry for directing my comments to someone on here. I tried to delete it but it won't let me since I am not publishing my real info. I am guessing that is what you want to talk to me about. It won't happen again. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteHi 3 year CCUSD Parent,
ReplyDeleteWe don't want your private email and we do not want to berate you, just wanted to send you a private message.
You can register a free email account (may we suggest Gmail.com) then you can send us a message and you could use that address to register for a blogger account, allowing you to post and delete comments.
Thanks!
Dear 3 year,
ReplyDeleteHow did you figure overall and school score? I see my son's scores but not the other scores. Congratulations, those are good scores. You must be proud of your child.
Grades 6 and up - Foothills Academy is a decent charter. Perhaps you can check it out when your child is ready to go to middle school.
Maybe CCUSD Watch wants your email so they can induct you into their secret clan!!!
honeymom
HM - they gave me the overall average on the page that had her scores. It's odd they did not give you your son's average.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info on the charter school. I will look into it and back burner the info. :-)
As for the watch, I did email them. We shall see.
Dear 3 Year,
ReplyDeleteI wonder if different schools get reports differently. Eventually the school tn will post. I am not sure how to get his overall though.
honeymom
Dear CCUSD Watch,
ReplyDeleteI guess that what bothers me about your headlines, especially your headline on this post is that you have narrowed on this district. Shouldn't the headline really be "Words for Every Public School Districts to Heed." Even PV has its fair share of not so great schools. While your focus is on CCUSD, all public districts can be outperformed by a great private school because private schools have small class sizes, are adequately funded through high tuition, can pick and choose their students and only take in ones that they feel will perform well and that do not have "issues." Plus, many private schools require parent participation. But, even with all of these advantages, it doesn't mean that as a parent we can afford to send our children to a private school and certainly if your child has any issues, they are less of an option.
Dear "June 17, 2008 7:34 AM",
ReplyDeleteASA is a public charter school not a private school.
We should have never referenced the ASA test scores. What we wanted to focus on was the quote by an Arizona educator who understands that EXCELLING and AIMS test score results are meaningless.
Something we wished CCUSD would do.
Are those labels really meaningless? What will CCUSD Watch write if our 8 schools don't retain their "excelling" labels?
ReplyDeleteMeaning is relative.
I was referring to the prep schools which are private that were also referenced in this blog post. And, while I agree that the excelling label could mean more than it does, it is better than under performing isn't it?
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