Students enter Green
Dot schools testing in the bottom 10 % but are matching the graduation rate for the state.
Not exact matches
Each
dot represents a
school, and the diagonal line shows the overall relationship between
test - score gains and fluid cognitive ability across the full sample of
schools.
In just two years, Green
Dot has improved
test scores and achieved impressive gains in leading indicators, and has done so with less funding per student than the Los Angeles Unified
School District and the national average.
Growth - based measures and demographic - adjusted average
test scores identify similar types of
schools as low - performing, as shown by the fact that the red
dots (low - income
schools) are spread out in the figure, as opposed to clustered on the left - hand side.
You can scroll over the
dots to see the public
school district or charter
school name and their demographics and
test data.
Common Core battles,
testing opt - outs, and litigation about
school choice and teacher work rules
dot the landscape.
Charter
schools require parents to sign on the
dotted line, in English, saying that, if their child does not get a sufficiently high
test score, they are out the door.
Before joining Green
Dot Public
Schools, Gordon served as an assistant principal and a
Testing and Intervention Coordinator for David Starr Jordan High
School in Long Beach California.
If charter
schools (red
dots) had overwhelmingly higher
test results, then we would expect more of their average scores to be above the majority of blue
dots at their % FRPM level.
An independent study by UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student
Testing (CRESST) found that students attending the Green
Dot - operated Locke are nearly four times more likely to graduate and be ready for college than students at neighboring
schools.
Green
Dot cited the South L.A.
school's underenrollment and low
test scores, results Cook attributed to the relatively higher percentage of students learning English, a main emphasis of the
school.