Monday, September 17, 2012
Superintendent Conrad Farner mistakenly told attendees at the district's annual meeting only 20 percent of Greenfield students went on to four-year colleges or universities. The item came up during a discussion of ACT scores.
While defending and explaining a dip in ACT scores to electors at the Greenfield School District’s annual meeting last Monday, Superintendent Conrad Farner said the slight decline in 2011 had to do with the number students taking the test. As the number of participants rose, Greenfield’s scores not surprisingly slipped, largely because only 20 percent of Greenfield’s students go on to four-year colleges or universities, Farner told an audience of 40-50 people. Turns out, however, a far greater number of Greenfield High School students attend four-year colleges than Farner stated. According to the Department of Public Instruction, 56.5 percent of the 291 graduates of the class of 2011 planned to go to a four-year college or university and …
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The proposal would replace the current high school assessment system with a four-test ACT suite that would be given to high school students starting in 2014-15.
The Wisconsin Department of Instruction is hoping to usher in a new era of learning and assessment at every high school in the state State Superintendent Tony Evers on Wednesday announced a proposal to replace the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE) with a suite of ACT assessments to measure student learning and better prepare the state’s youth for post-secondary education careers. “This is really a historic day in Wisconsin,” Evers said. “We’re moving to a different place in the state, and we need to make sure every student is adequately and significantly prepared for their future careers.” Evers said the assessment suite would include four different tests, which would be paid for and provided by the state. Students would …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Conrad Farner said as more Greenfield students take the test than ever before, a dip in the overall aggregate score is natural.
With more students taking the ACT than ever before, it’s only natural for the district’s aggregate test scores to be slightly down compared to last year. Greenfield School District Superintendent Conrad Farner delivered that message to fewer than 30 citizens and about a dozen school officials and administrators at the district’s annual meeting in the high school performing arts center Monday. Farner’s comments came less than three weeks after the state’s Department of Public Instruction released the 2011-12 ACT data, data that showed Greenfield’s aggregate score had dipped slightly from 21.1 to 20.9, as reported by Greenfield Patch on Aug. 22. “I never get excited about one year of data,” Farner said. “To go from 21.1 to 20.9 in one year, …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Greenfield's scores from 2011-12, however, dipped slightly from last year and were below the state average.
With more rigourous academic standards now mandated by the state, Whitnall Superintendent Lowell Holtz was certainly pleased with today’s news that his district appears headed on the right path. Whitnall’s composite ACT test score for the 2011-12 school year of 23.4 surpassed last year’s mark of 23.2 as the district’s highest mark in the 17 years of data stored on the Department of Public Instruction website, according to statewide test results released by the DPI on Wednesday. Whitnall’s score was also higher than the state average of 22.1. “What it reflects positively on is the teachers in the district, and (the score) keeps going up because our administrators are working on giving every opportunity to allow teachers to help the students…
GreenfieldParent
1:21 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Simple statistic that any Superintendant would know, right? Seems not. Seems like there are other things that can be blamed to explain Farner's failures instead. Have to give the man credit for thinking on his feet. Mr. Seymour is right in his assessment. more ›