Sentences with phrase «combine student subgroups»

Most states now combine student subgroups, previously identified by race, ethnicity, economic disadvantage, special education, and English language learner status, into opaque «super-subgroups» that are very purposefully less transparent.

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[11] The same document prohibits states from combining «major racial and ethnic subgroups... into a... «super-subgroup,» as a substitute for considering student data in each of the major racial and ethnic groups separately (emphasis added).»

• Disaggregated subgroups by race / ethnicity plus «combined underserved race / ethnicity» student group.

A combined underserved subgroup similar to Oregon's: aggregating American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, Hispanic / Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students within each grade level.

States must include each major racial / ethnic subgroup in school accountability systems and can not use a combined «super subgroup» of minority students.

The super subgroups combined smaller subgroups of low - performing or disadvantaged students, but Ed Week notes that «civil rights advocates argued they allowed states to mask the performance of some student subgroups.»

Tennessee proposes that the combined graduation rate for all students will be 95 % by 2024 — 25, with separate goals for each individual subgroup.

Seven states — Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Oklahoma — would create new super-subgroups encompassing either the bottom 25 percent of students at each school or traditional subgroups combined into a single unit.

Combining these subgroups would fill these conversations about equity, student achievement, and improvement strategies with generalities, dismissing the unique strengths and opportunities for growth that these individual groups possess.

At every level of aggregation we lose insight into what is actually going on with students, so rather than being valid and actionable, a combined subgroup seems to blur what the data means.

Boulder's practice of effectively encouraging high school students to opt out of state testing and CDE's combined subgroup indicate a troubling trend.

The Colorado Department of Education is proposing new District and School Performance Frameworks that use a «combined subgroup» that aggregates performance results of English learners, students of color, students with disabilities, and students eligible for free / reduced price lunch.

While we appreciate CDE's proposal to disaggregate student subgroup data in achievement (not just growth, as was the case in previous frameworks), as well as the Department's commitment to ensuring transparency of subgroup performance data in reporting, we strongly encourage CDE to reconsider the adoption of a combined subgroup for accountability purposes, which would have significant implications for educational equity.

For instance, Connecticut is proposing to combine ELs into a larger subgroup of «high needs» students, including students with disabilities and students from low - income families.