Re: High School Dropout Rate
- From: "Jake" <jcbepstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Jun 2006 09:35:43 -0700
rick++ a écrit :
LA Times said 42,000 CA seniors who failed exit test were denied
diplomas.
The failure rate is about 1 in 10. That is a 90% pass rate, and from
that
viewpoint is pretty good. Some countries have national exams and
usually
the pass rates are around 80-85%. Any teacher knows that they
will have a failure rate of at least this level. There are a certain
fraction of the students who will fail, some due to their own not
working.
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One in 10 California high school seniors failed exit exam
By Seema Mehta
Los Angeles Times
One in ten California high school seniors will not receive a diploma at
graduation ceremonies this month because they failed the state's high
school exit exam, according to data released Thursday by the state
Department of Education. Students who are Latino, black, English
learners or poor were disproportionately affected in the failure rates.
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell urged the 41,758 seniors across the
state who had not passed the exam to continue striving to receive their
diploma, in summer school, independent study or community college.
"Their education is simply not complete, but they are still welcome and
still part of the public-school family," he said. "We will find a place
to help them prepare for their future."
The class of 2006 is the first that must pass the exam, which tests
basic math and language-arts skills, to earn a diploma under state
legislation approved seven years ago.
Beginning in their sophomore year, students have six chances to take
the exam. Students must score at least 55 percent on the math portion,
which is geared to an eighth-grade level, and 60 percent on the
English, which is ninth- or 10th-grade level.
The passage rates released by the state Thursday include results for
students who have taken the exam through March, but do not include a
May administration. Those results will be available this summer, but
not before schools across the state hold ceremonies and award diplomas.
Some districts are allowing students who have not passed the exam to
participate in commencement ceremonies if they meet other requirements.
Statewide, white and Asian students were much more likely than their
Hispanic and black classmates of passing the exam. English learners had
the worst rate of passage, with one in four unable to pass the exam.
"There is an achievement gap in California. We know this, we admit
this," O'Connell said.
Critics of the exam, such as attorney Arturo Gonzalez, who has sued the
state on behalf of students, said the disparities show the exam is
unfair.
"Whether intended or not, the result is to deny diplomas to thousands
of poor kids who have managed to overcome substantial barriers to
staying in school and that is a travesty," he said.
The San Francisco attorney filed a lawsuit against the state
questioning the exit exam on behalf of a handful of students. A lower
court initially struck down the exam on the grounds that it posed an
unfair hurdle for poor and minority students in subpar schools, but in
late May, a divided state Supreme Court reinstated the exam. An appeals
court will consider the case in July.
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