{"id":585,"date":"2006-06-14T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T21:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-06-14T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T21:41:03","slug":"inconsistency-again-between-florida-school-grades-and-ayp-judgments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistency (again) between Florida school grades and AYP judgments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 letter grades assigned to Florida&#8217;s public schools&#151;and AYP classifications&#151; <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgrades.fldoe.org\">came out today<\/a>, and as expected the governor talked about the increasing number of schools labeled A and B, while the press has thus far not picked up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgrades.fldoe.org\/pdf\/0506\/schlGrds_pages_13.pdf\">increasing inconsistency between Florida&#8217;s &#8216;grades&#8217; and the AYP classifications<\/a> (PDF). In the pie-chart comparisons, note that <em>provisional<\/em> simply is the category of inconsistency between the state grade of A and B and an AYP failure classification. <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\/epaa\/v13n33\/\">Robert Linn<\/a> used Florida&#8217;s inconsistency as one of his paradigmatic examples of the silliness of the current scheme.  (&#8220;Silliness&#8221; is a technical term here&#8230;)<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see how long it takes reporters to realize this&#8230; <em>Update<\/em>: I should&#8217;ve checked Google News earlier.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/06\/14\/State\/Schools_score_record_.shtml\">Ron Matus&#8217;s story in the St. Pete Times<\/a> had that as the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 letter grades assigned to Florida&#8217;s public schools&#151;and AYP classifications&#151; came out today, and as expected the governor talked about the increasing number of schools labeled A and B, while the press has thus far not picked up on the increasing inconsistency between Florida&#8217;s &#8216;grades&#8217; and the AYP classifications (PDF). In the pie-chart comparisons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-9r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}