Improving High School Achievement in the US and California: What Can We Do?

1. Improving High School Achievement in the US and California: What Can We Do? California State University System Campus Presidents June, 2005

2. What Do We Know About Student Achievement?

3. 12th Grade Achievement In Math and Science is Up Somewhat

4. High School Achievement: Math and Science Source: NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress.

5. In Reading, 12th Grade Achievement is Headed Downward

6. HIGH SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT: READING AND WRITING

7. What about different groups of students?During seventies and eighties, much progress.

8. Gaps Narrow 1970-88NAEP Reading 17 Year-Olds Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress (p. 107) Washington, DC: US Department of Education, August 2000

9. Gaps Narrow 1973-86NAEP Math Scores, 13 Year-Olds Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress (p. 108) Washington, DC: US Department of Education, August 2000

10. Between 1988-90, that progress came to a halt…and gaps began to widen once again.

11. Gaps Narrow, Then Hold Steady or Widen: NAEP Math Scores, 17 Year-Olds 22 20 Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress (p. 108) Washington, DC: US Department of Education, August 2000

12. After 1988, Gaps Mostly Widen NAEP Reading, 17 Year-Olds 22 24 Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress (p. 107) Washington, DC: US Department of Education, August 2000

13. How much learning takes place at each level?

14. Students Make More Growth Grade 5 to 8 than Grade 9 to 12

15. Academic GrowthGrades 5-8, 9-12

16. Value Added in High School Declined During the Nineties

17. Value Added Declining in High School Math... Age 13-17 Growth Source: NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress

18. …Still Age 13-17 Growth Source: Main NAEP 1996, 2000

19. Reading: Students Entering Better Prepared, But Leaving Worse Source: NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress

20. Hormones?

21. Students in Other Countries Gain far More in Middle and High School

22. TIMSS

23. Source: NCES 1999-081R, Highlights From TIMSS

24. Source: NCES 1999-081R, Highlights From TIMSS

25. PISA

26. US 15 Year-Olds Rank Near Middle Of The Pack Among 32 Participating Countries: 1999

27. 2003: U.S. Ranked 24th out of 29 OECD Countries in Mathematics Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA 2003 Results, data available at http://www.oecd.org/

28. Problems are not limited to our high-poverty and high-minority schools . . .

29. U.S. Ranks Low in the Percent of Students in the Highest Achievement Level (Level 6) in Math Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA 2003 Results, data available at http://www.oecd.org/

30. U.S. Ranks 23rd out of 29 OECD Countries in the Math Achievement of the Highest-Performing Students* * Students at the 95th Percentile Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA 2003 Results, data available at http://www.oecd.org/

31. U.S. Ranks 23rd out of 29OECD Countries in the Math Achievement of High-SES Students Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA 2003 Results, data available at http://www.oecd.org/

32. One measure on which we rank high?Inequality!

33. Performance Of U.S.15 Year-Olds Highly Variable *Of 27 OECD countries Source: OECD, Knowledge and Skills for Life: First Results From PISA 2000, 2001.

34. Where are we now?

35. Where Are We Now?4th Grade Reading All Students 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Summary Data Tables

36. By Race, Ethnicity NAEP 4th Grade Reading 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

37. By Family Income NAEP 4th Grade Reading 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

38. Where Are We Now?8th Grade Math All Students 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Summary Data Tables

39. By Race, Ethnicity NAEP 8th Grade Math 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

40. By Family Income NAEP 8th Grade Math 2003 Source: USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

41. These gaps begin before children arrive at the schoolhouse door. But, rather than organizing our educational system to ameliorate this problem, we organize it to exacerbate the problem.

42. AT END OF HIGH SCHOOL?

43. Latino and African American 17 Year Olds Do Math at Same Levels As White 13 Year Olds Source: NAEP 1999 Long Term Trends Summary Tables (online)

44. African American and Latino 17 Year Olds Read at Same Levels as White 13 Year Olds Source: Source: NAEP 1999 Long Term Trends Summary Tables (online)

45. And these are the students who remain in school.

46. Students Graduate From High School At Different Rates, 2001 Source: Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster, “Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States,” Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2003.

47. ADD IT ALL UP...

48. Of Every 100 White Kindergartners: (25-to 29-Year-Olds) Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. March Current Population Surveys, 1971-2001, in The Condition of Education 2002.

49. Of Every 100 African American Kindergartners: (25-to 29-Year-Olds) Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. March Current Population Survey, 1971-2001, In The Condition of Education 2002.

50. Of Every 100 Latino Kindergartners: (25-to 29-Year-Olds) Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. March Current Population Surveys, 1971-2001, In The condition of Education 2002.