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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Is ADE Article Government Propaganda?
Ken James, State Department of Education Commissioner, in a Democrat Gazette guest editorial (9/10/06), said, "Never in this state have we been able to boast the academic progress we?ve experienced in the last few years. To be able to do so in such a short time is nothing short of amazing." In response, to the article, Women's Prayer & ActionGroup asks if the editorial qualify as "government propaganda" and identify some not so amazing facts about Arkansas Education:
Test Scores are 11 Percentile Points lower than in 1990 (a 22% decrease)
College Remediation Rate is 51.6% (46.6% in 1995); National Average is 33%
Only Nine States Scored Lower Than Arkansas in 8th Grade Math on NAEP Test
US Dept of Educations says Arkansas Benchmark Tests May Be Too Easy
Only 28% of AR students pass test on AP courses, while 59.4% pass nationwide
Fordham Foundation Gives Arkansas an F on Standards
National Report Card on Higher Ed. Gave Arkansas a D+ In High School Preparation for College.
Educational Reforms Have Cost $1.4 BILLION which equals a 3% sales tax in AR Read More...
It is interesting how the Democrat Gazette continues to print all the propaganda by ADE Director Ken James (and lets him write a guest editorial) even when they have been given the truth several times. BUT today they do an entire editorial on one little fact about the college remediation rate in the Paron school district (that was forced to put their kids on the bus for 4 hours to the delight of Paul Greenberg with the Dem. Gazette) that was an error on the ADE website and went to great lenths to investiage it to prove it false - one little error and yet they won't investigate or give the truth on the statewide data which they have been given more than once. Amazing! But yet so typical of the media today.
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It is interesting how the Democrat Gazette continues to print all the propaganda by ADE Director Ken James (and lets him write a guest editorial) even when they have been given the truth several times. BUT today they do an entire editorial on one little fact about the college remediation rate in the Paron school district (that was forced to put their kids on the bus for 4 hours to the delight of Paul Greenberg with the Dem. Gazette) that was an error on the ADE website and went to great lenths to investiage it to prove it false - one little error and yet they won't investigate or give the truth on the statewide data which they have been given more than once. Amazing! But yet so typical of the media today.
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