STOP ACADEMIC CHILD ABUSE IN IOWA!

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Judy Hintz, Outstanding Education Successes at Educational Resources in West Des Moines--Stops Academic Child Abuse!!

Judy’s School Routinely Brings Students to Grade Level, that Public Schools Fail to Teach.

4TH GRADE READING RANKING OF IOWA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2010-2011 

 MATH RANKING OF IOWA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2010-2011 

IOWA STUDENT PROFICIENCY STANDARD IS LOWEST IN MIDWEST

DEFINITIONS

ACADEMIC CHILD ABUSE--PUBLIC SCHOOL FAILURE TO BRING IOWA STUDENTS TO IOWA GRADE LEVEL OR TO COMPETE  INTERNATIONALLY

CONSTRUCTIVIST—Anyone who believes free and reduced lunch, English language learners, minority, bored or mobile students etc., are flawed and cannot be taught.  Constructivists make excuses rather than improvement plans.  They also blame parents, who were educated in the public schools, for public school failures.

EDUCRATS—Teachers and administrators who are insecure control freaks, obsessed with money.   They comprise about 33% of Iowa’s teachers and school administrators, but they, along with constructivists, are in charge of the evil ISEA teacher’s union, Dept. of Education, State and local boards, and the legislature--and have wrecked public schools and wreak academic child abuse in Iowa. 

TEACHERS—Educators who really care about the kids and suffer the turmoil, harm, student academic abuse and damage caused by constructivists and educrats—but can do nothing about it.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN WEST DES MOINES—A private school operated by Judy Hintz, that routinely teaches “flawed” students and brings them up to Iowa grade level.  These are typical of the students public schools refuse to teach—and bogusly claim can’t be taught.

TOTAL COST PER STUDENT—According to the Legislative Fiscal Agency, the average total cost per Iowa student is now more than $14,500—not $9,455 as claimed elsewhere herein.  

NAEP--National Assessment of Educational Progress--the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.

PISA--Program for International Student Assessment--A program that tests students in about 60 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries --in math, reading and science.  The United States has fallen to barely above average in reading and science, and below average in math--as shown in chart farther below. 

GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE--When Iowa schools adopt the 95th National Percentile Rank as the academic proficiency standard, and at least 25% of the students meet it--as they now do in countries out scoring the United States on the PISA test. . 

IOWA UNIVERSITIES DON'T TEACH 5 ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR TEACHING READING

The National Council on Teacher Quality Evaluation of Universities evaluated the following Iowa universities for their Reading Instruction Performance On Teaching Teachers the  FIVE ESSENTIAL SCIENTIFIC COMPONENTS FOR TEACHING READING.  Here is what they found, and it is all bad news!!

Buena Vista University—teaches 4 of 5

U of I—teaches 2 of 5

UNI—teaches 1 of 5

ISU and others were not evaluated, but are expected to be no different. 

The entire National Council report can be found on website:  http://www.nctq.org/nctq/images/nctq_reading_study_app.pdf

No wonder universities don’t want to be evaluated.  Even worse, they want more funding if they have to determine and report their performance to the Board of Regents—which they should have been doing all along!!  

Teachers taught in Iowa’s Universities are not taught how to teach reading—AND constructivist representatives and graduates of those universities, and others, will pollute and defeat Branstad’s Education Summit. 

But he doesn't care, because he is focused on getting major property tax reductions for big businesses.  Watch how he gets them--by throwing more money at the evil teacher's union--in a special legislative session, after the Summit ends in a shower of baloney!!

PAST EDUCATION FAILURES THAT LED TO ACADEMIC CHILD ABUSE

Some of the past Education failures perpetrated by constructivists in the teachers union, legislature, education departments, school boards etc. are:

Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them.

THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY CONSTRUCTIVISTS SPEAKING AT EDUCATION SUMMIT

THE IOWA EDUCATION SUMMIT HAS NO MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES!!

BUT SHAMELESS SUMMIT OFFICIALS WILL CLAIM THEY WERE MET!!

An Iowalive search of the Education Summit website:  http://iowaeducation.iowa.gov/education-summit/  states no objectives to improve student achievement or anything.  It is all talk. 

For example, "Summit speakers and panel participants will share their ideas for how to give all students a globally competitive education".   That's it.  That's the only thing cited that comes near to stating an objective.  It's a farce. 

THAT’S WHY THE EVIL, CONSTRUCTIVIST ISEA TEACHER’S UNION IS NOT COMPLAINING--AND WHY IOWA ACADEMIC CHILD ABUSE WILL CONTINUE UNABATED

Iowalive Found No Evidence Any of the Speakers Have Significantly Improved Student Achievement

MORE EVIDENCE OF IOWA ACADEMIC CHILD ABUSE

TERRIBLE UNITED STATES, IOWA AND DES MOINES, 2009 MATH SCORE RANKINGS

THE UNITED STATES RANKS 38^TH OF 60 JURISDICTIONS IN 2009 INTERNATIONAL MATH PISA TESTS

Visit website:  http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/12/46643496.pdf  , add up the number of international jurisdictions out-scoring the United States in math, and you will find the United States is ranked 38^th.

IOWA RANKS 17^TH IN 8^TH GRADE 2009 U.S.  NAEP MATH TESTS

Visit Iowa’s Report Card website:  http://iowaeducation.iowa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Iowa_Report_Card.pdf  and you will find Iowa ranked 17^th  in the U. S. in 8^th grade NAEP math tests.

DES MOINES RANKS 325^TH OF 327 IOWA SCHOOLS IN 11^TH GRADE 2009 ITED MATH TESTS

Visit website http://www.iowalive.net/math%20ranking%202010%202011.htm and you will find Des Moines ranked 325^th of 327 Iowa schools, in 11^th grade math.

IOWA SPENT AT LEAST $14,300 PER PUBIC SCHOOL STUDENT IN  2009

The evil ISEA teacher union DEMANDS MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION!!

IOWA EDUCATION COSTS ARE OUT OF CONTROL

IOWA TOTAL COST PER STUDENT UP $5,380 (67%) SINCE 1992--($8,920) TO 2010 ($14,300) in 2000 Year Dollars Source:  Department of Ed.

Iowa’s Report Card, Posted on website:  http://iowaeducation.iowa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Iowa_Report_Card.pdf  claims $9,455 cost per student  for ’09-10.    Iowalive believes the $14,300 number is  much more accurate.