Name: Failure rates spike among Md. public school students, data shows - WTOP News
Brand: wtop.com
SKU: wtop-com-366
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

Failure rates spike among Md. public school students, data shows - WTOP News

preview

|||{{headline}}Failure rates have surged among Maryland public school students during the second quarter of the school year, according to new data.Failure rates have surged among Maryland public school students during the second quarter of the school year, according to new data.looked at year-to-year failing rates in math, English, science and social studies for the second quarter, which ran from November 2020 to January 2021.It shows failure rates doubling or tripling in most of the state’s 24 school districts.“Most of the schools systems, the percent of students who failed a particular course approximately doubled or more,” said Dara Shaw, executive director for research at the Maryland State Department of Education.For example, close to 16% of Prince George’s County elementary students failed at least one second quarter class — up from about 5%.“Last year, no systems had a failure rate of above 20%. This year, nine systems had a failure rate of above 20%,” Shaw said.Officials believe the surge in failure rates is a result of pandemic learning but they acknowledge that the data could be flawed.“We know that course grades are not a perfect measure of student learning, because there are things that go into course grades, especially in term grades that are not related to an objective test of student learning,” Shaw said.“So things like attendance, participation, coursework, or classwork or turning in assignments. So I want to caveat this by saying that we wanted to do the best that we could to take a look at student learning across the state, knowing that we have imperfect and unstandardized data.”The full .||||||||Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you.

|||{{headline}}Failure rates have surged among Maryland public school students during the second quarter of the school year, according to new data.Failure rates have surged among Maryland public school students during the second quarter of the school year, according to new data.looked at year-to-year failing rates in math, English, science and social studies for the second quarter, which ran from November 2020 to January 2021.It shows failure rates doubling or tripling in most of the state’s 24 school districts.“Most of the schools systems, the percent of students who failed a particular...

public

Acacia James

News, traffic and weather: on-air, online, mobile

wtop.com

Credible

Speculation

Anecdotal Evidence

Generalization

Stacking the Deck

Appeal to Authority

Straw Man

Slippery Slope

Emotional Appeal

Red Herring

False Dilemma

Illogical

Moral Equivalency

Ad Hominem

Correlation w/o Causation

Semantics

Begging the Question

Faulty Analogy

Non Sequitur

Bandwagon

Dogmatism

Failing Occam's Razor

Biased

Pure Opinion

Hit Piece

Racial Bias

National Bias

Religious Bias

Financial Incentive

Political Agenda

Gender Bias

Misused Image/Video

Study Misinterpreted

Mistake

Misused Term

Science Misrepresented

Factual Error

Satire

Surface Level

Lack of Reliable Sources

Sensational

Not Credible

Investigative

Balanced

Well Sourced

Great Context

sports

entertainment

U.S.

international

business

technology

science

culture

politics

media

health

Failure rates spike among Md. public school students, data shows - WTOP News

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS