Taylor & Cinco Ranch High Schools Pace KISD And Texas In College Graduation Rates; But, If Your Child Is Not Among Their Elite, What Do These Statistics Mean To Your Family?
Taylor and Cinco Ranch High Schools rank in the top 10 in Texas in producing high school graduates who earn baccalaureate degrees from universities in Texas within the industry-standard timeline of six years, according to the most recently available statistics from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (THECB) While the THECB does yet report graduation rates for Seven Lakes High School and...
Higher Education Coordinating Board Reports That Fewer Than 25% Of Mayde Creek High School Graduates Earn Baccalaureate Degrees With 6 Years; This Report Does Not Include Out Of State Graduates, But Like KHS, Does That Really Change The Big Picture? No, It Really Doesn’t
Of the 1,865 members of the Mayde Creek High school graduating classes of 2002-2004 tracked, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) reports that 22.5% received a baccalaureate degree from a Texas public or private university within the industry-standard timeline of six years. Of these three successive graduating classes from Mayde Creek High School, 4.1% earned an associate...
Katy High School 6-Year Baccalaureate Graduation Rates At Texas Colleges & Universities Reported To Be 30% By Higher Education Coordinating Board; Figures Do NOT Include Out Of State Performance But Does That Really Change The Picture? Defenders Can Waddle In Their Hallucinations
Of the 1,959 members of the Katy High School graduating classes of 2002-2004 tracked, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) reports that 30% received a baccalaureate degree from a Texas public or private university within the industry-standard timeline of six years. Of these three successive graduating classes from Katy High School, just over 4% earned an associate degree from...
Big Media Picks Up On Theme Of George Scott Reports That Says State’s New STAAR and End Of Course Testing Will Be Unmitigated Disaster
By Gary Scharrer AUSTIN — A new school accountability system is already creating anxiety for some educators and business leaders — not to mention students who will face much harder tests with high school graduation riding on the outcome. The new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, is replacing the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, starting this spring. STAAR...
Principles To Guide The Path Forward To Reform
This document is not ‘light reading.’ The subject of public education is too important for the acquiescent acceptance of the status quo to continue. It is true that the emotions that can attach to the subjects can be intense. However, there has never been a time in our community’s (or the nation’s) development that the need to face important issues with courage and strength of purpose to do...
State’s STAAR Test Will Be Unmitigated Disaster For Credibility Of TEA, Legislature, School Districts, Vendor Pimp Corporations, Consultants; Analysis Of KISD Semester Tests Show Ticking Time Bomb Of Pending Disgrace For Them
Stupidity on steroids. That’s the only way to describe what the evil empire of the public education industrial complex led by the Texas Education Agency has done to itself by the way it is rolling out its new accountability test - STAAR. When the TEA is forced to announce the results of testing this spring, the bottom line will be the unmitigated disaster these results will impose upon exposing...
Morton Ranch High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
Significantly more 2010 Morton Ranch High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in two-year community colleges in Texas than attended the state’s four-year universities, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The same report notes that the percentage of MRHS students who could not be found or tracked as having enrolled...
The Texas Education Agency & Your Local School District Could Tell You The Definitive Truth About Your High School’s And District’s College Board AP Performance Results But They Don’t & They Won’t; Let’s Go Inside Fort Bend I.S.D. To See The Level Of ‘Deceptive’ Truth Parents Get From System
All across the nation and sweeping into Texas public schools, The College Board’s Advanced Placement course and testing program is deteriorating in quality and productivity moving further away from the service it has provided so well for so long. The AP program’s thesis is that it provides the brightest, most academically advanced high school students genuine college-level rigor courses and gives...
Texas Education Agency, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Legislature, & Your School District Could Tell You With Great Precision How The Graduates Of Your High Schools Perform In College; You Should Consider The Meaning Of Governments That Could But Won’t Reveal
Imagine yourself as a keen fan of horse racing eagerly watching television coverage of the big race to see how your favorite horse (and bet) turned out. “Ladies and gentlemen, the big field is at the starting gate including the odds on choice to take this race Tomorrow’s Favorite. However, it’s a promising field in which the world’s top jockey is aboard long shot Yesterday’s Fade. Anything...
Raines High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
While Raines High School is undergoing a major expansion of its facility and programs, data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board document that the vast majority of students who graduate from the campus do not attend college - even a community college - and the vast majority of those that enrolled after graduation in 2009 and 2010 do not fair well in their first year of higher education. The...