Activity last 120 Days
December 18th 2008
“A key issue is whether teachers are covering specific material that students need to master before taking these tests,” - State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex.
| 14.5% - A | 16.8% - B | 22.9% - C | 24.1% - D | 21.7% - F |
| 11.9% - A | 15.6% - B | 23.6% - C | 17.3% - D | 31.6% - F |
| 09.3% - A | 10.6% - B | 16.9% - C | 18.2% - D | 45% - F |
December 16th 2008
When President-elect Barack Obama announced earlier today that Arne Duncan, the current chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools, is his pick for Department of Education secretary, I figured it’d be a good idea to see where South Carolina stands in the national rankings.
Looking at the graph, it’s not entirely surprising to us that we rank #34 on the national education report card. What is surprising is some of the categories that we did so well in - and STILL wound up with a ‘D’ grade!
Two categories we got an ‘A’ in were:
So: our teachers tell the truth and they are state-of-the-art.
From there it goes downhill though, with two categories getting a ‘D’:
