[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]When new assessment results come out, I barely glance at how we\u2019re serving female students and male students, even as I\u2019m hurrying to see what progress Kentucky delivered (or failed to deliver) for other groups. \u00a0This post offers a quick look at why gender isn\u2019t at the top of my equity concerns in Kentucky P-12 education.<\/p>\n
On 2019 KPREP math and science assessments, our schools didn\u2019t produce identical scores for female and male students, but they got pretty close, with slight male leads on two tests and small female leads on four.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9913″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]In contrast, the 2019 assessments showed yawning gaps in how our schools deliver for African American and White (Non-Hispanic) students, and what they deliver students who are eligible and ineligible for free or reduced-price meals. With sad, disturbing consistency, our results are weaker for African American and low-income students than for their classmates: the charts below only show one gap of less than 20 points.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9915″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9916″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInLeft”]The National Assessment of Educational Progress confirms this sense that our most important work to create schools where all students flourish does not need to put gender in the main spotlight.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a smaller chart showing the most recent differences in how we are educating different groups of learners.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9917″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInLeft”]These results certainly do not guarantee that our schools are doing equally well at building on the strengths of female and male students. In particular, there\u2019s lots of room to explore how well we\u2019re building up the capacities we don\u2019t test, like collaboration, oral communication, designing investigations, and solving substantive problems.<\/p>\n
However, results do show that on the math and science knowledge and skills we do assess, we\u2019re moving female and male students to similar places, while not getting close to that for other groups. And they show why gender is not on my short list of issues to check when Kentucky gets new K-12 evidence on how we are equipping our rising generation to contribute to the work and life of our commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Finally, our small gender gaps do not mean that we\u2019re making the STEM progress we need for either female or male students. In recent years, Kentucky has seen few gains in our assessed math and science results in recent years. Our rankings among the 50 states have slipped in on NAEP math and science tests over the last decade.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for big, bold action in all our communities, supported by major state resource upgrades like those proposed in the Prichard Committee\u2019s Big Bold Ask<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9924″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9925″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9926″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”9927″ animation=”slideInUp”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInLeft” el_class=”smalltext”]Source Note:<\/strong> When new assessment results come out, I barely glance at how we\u2019re serving female students and male students, even as I\u2019m hurrying to see what progress Kentucky delivered (or failed to deliver) for other groups. This post offers a quick look at why gender isn\u2019t at the top of my equity concerns in Kentucky P-12 education.<\/p>\n On 2019 KPREP math and science assessments, our schools didn\u2019t produce identical scores for female and male students, but they got pretty close, with slight male leads on two tests and small female leads on four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-numbers-up"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Kentucky School Report Cart research data files<\/a> provided the KPREP results above, and the NAEP Data Explorer<\/a> provided the other data.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"