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Alaska’s Education Challenge:Current Context and Public Survey
Brian Laurent, Data Management SupervisorAlaska Department of Education & Early Development
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Introduction• DEED’s Data Management
Supervisor since Sept. 2013• Oversight of data collections,
accountability implementation, and assessment reporting
• 10 years in Alaska (Juneau and Dillingham)
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Agenda
• About Alaska’s Schools• The need for Alaska’s Education Challenge• Survey of Alaskans – topics for committees
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About Alaska Schools – The Basics
• 53 school districts plus Mount Edgecumbe High School• 507 operational schools in 2016-2017• Almost 130,000 K-12 students on 10/1/2016• Majority-minority student population• 8,109 graduates during the 2015-2016 school year• The public school system includes traditional,
alternative, charter, correspondence, and residential boarding schools.
• On 10/1/2016, 9.4 percent of all K-12 students were enrolled in public correspondence schools.
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Alaska K‐12 District‐Level Enrollment as of October 1, 2016
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Enrollment as of October 1, 2016“Big 5” Districts vs. Non‐“Big 5”
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What is PISA?
• The Programme for International Student Assessment is administered every three years “to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students”
• Approximately 540,000 students completed the assessment in 2015
• 72 participating countries and economies (two countries excluded from rankings)
• The major domain in 2015 was science 10
PISA website: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa
2015 PISA StatisticsScience Reading Math
U.S. overallrank 25 24 40
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Norway,Austria, France
Portugal, UK, Chinese
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What is NAEP?
• National Assessment of Educational Progress• Administered every other year to a representative
sample of students in grades 4 and 8• “…built from a content framework that specifies
what students should know and be able to do in a given grade.”
• State-level results only• 2017 NAEP window: January 30-March 10• Transitioned to a digitally based assessment 12
NAEP website: https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
2015 NAEP Grade 4 ReadingAverage Scale Score by State
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Note: Alaska ranked 49th out of 52 jurisdictions.
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Note: Alaska ranked 33rd out of 52 jurisdictions.
Statewide Standards and Assessments
• 2005-2014: Standards Based Assessments (SBAs)• 2012: State Board adopted more rigorous English
Language Arts (ELA) and Math standards• 2015: Alaska Measures of Progress (AMP)
• First computer-based summative assessment in Alaska• Comparisons between SBAs and AMP are NOT possible
• 2016: No assessment data available• 2017: Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools
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SBA Results by Content Area: Statewide, All Students
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Reading % Proficient Writing % Proficient Math % Proficient
AMP English Language Arts Results:Statewide, All Students, 2015
35.4%40.0% 42.2%
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AMP Mathematics Results:Statewide, All Students, 2015
40.5% 38.8%34.6% 31.9% 29.7%
25.8% 26.3%20.2%
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Teacher New Hires
• About 8,000 teachers each year• In 2016-2017, 10.5 percent were new hires
• New Hire = Any teacher designated by the district as new to the district.
• Big 5 districts all had New Hire percentages of less than 10 percent
• 30 districts had New Hire rates of at least 20 percent
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Percentage of Chronically AbsentStudents by School, 2015‐2016
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Statewide rate = 26.4%
Note: Chronically Absent is defined as any student who was absent from school for at least 10 percent of the school days in which the student was enrolled.
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Four‐Year Graduation Rate:Statewide by Subgroup
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53.9%54.7%
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All Students Students with Disabilities English Learners Economically Disadvantaged
Shifts in Graduation Requirements
• July 1, 2014• Repeal of the High School Graduation Qualifying Examination
(HSGQE) requirement is effective (HB 278)• Beginning of College/Career-Ready Assessment (CCRA)
graduation requirement• ACT• SAT• WorkKeys
• June 30, 2016• Repeal of CCRA graduation requirement is effective (HB 44)
• Now• Students must meet all local requirements to receive a
diploma24
Final Notes about Data
• Subpar U.S. performance compared to other countries
• Low/subpar Alaska performance compared to other states
• One in three students met the standards on AMP• One in 10 teachers is new to the district• One in four students is chronically absent• Graduation rate below national average, even with
shift in graduation requirements 25
Survey of Alaskans
• First step in Alaska’s Education Challenge• Open throughout February• Survey participants were asked to provide their
ideas for topics to be discussed by the committees• Up to five ideas per committee (up to 25 total)• Anonymous• Respondents were asked to provide their role and
home community26
Survey Responses
• 1,383 respondents• 18,575 ideas for topics• 109 communities represented• Responses were coded into one or more of 47
broad categories• Education Northwest provided support for the coding of
responses into broad categories
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Where do the respondents reside?
Note: Out of 1,383 respondents, 1,142 provided their home community.
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Who responded to the survey?
38.1%
24.2%
8.1%
4.5%
3.6%
2.8%
2.3%1.9%
14.6%
Educator
Parent/guardian
Other district/school employee
Retired
Grandparent
Principal
Business/private sector
Higher education
Other
Note: Out of 1,383 respondents, 1,142 provided their role.
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What did the respondents say?Student Learning Committee
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Improvements in buildings need more
state funding.
Permanent funding
situation instead of year by year
funding.
Make educational
funding a priority for AK.
What did the respondents say?Educator Excellence Committee
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Provide professional development
funding to Pre-K teacher
assistants.
Teachers attend professional
development to take back skills to
use in the classroom
immediately.
What did the respondents say?Modernization and Finance Committee
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Leverage --eliminate
textbooks. Transition to fully digital.
Have master teachers mentor newer teachers
by distance delivery.
In a fiscal crisis, this seems unrealistic. Technology costs money and we don't have it.
What did the respondents say?Tribal and Community Ownership Committee
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Having elders mentor in
classrooms on a regular basis.
Allow for flexibility and local control in all situations, with
enforceable accountability.
What did the respondents say?Safety and Well‐Being Committee
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Understand drugs and
bullying are a problem.
Adopt trauma-informed
approaches to discipline and
education alike.
Every school needs a nurse. They provide
another person to talk to.
Final Notes about the Survey
• Statewide representation• Over half of respondents identified as either an
educator or parent/guardian• Topic overlap between committees• Topics are broad enough to include a wide range of
responses (e.g. for and against)• How do the survey responses lead to
transformational change to the educational system? 35