Noah Diekemper
This week, Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) unveiled yet another change to how “proficiency” is measured on the state’s Forward exams. This change, not the first in recent years, makes it difficult to tell whether school districts are doing good work and ...
DPI released Forward Exam results for the 2022-23 school year--there is important information that can be garnered from this data.
WILL examines missing data to project true proficiency rates of “lost kids”
The News: A new policy brief from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) finds that the large number of students who didn’t take the 2020-21 Forward Exam may have pushed the already low proficiency rates ...
Students in Wisconsin, and around the nation, have dealt with two school years that were largely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Despite ample evidence that reopening schools was safe, teachers unions fought tooth-and-nail to keep doors shut; forcing students into virtual learning. The ...
Today, DPI released the Forward Exam test scores – mandated for grades 3-8 in math and English language Arts (ELA) for children at traditional public, public charter, and private schools (in the choice program). Per usual, we will do our deeper dive later in the year (Apples to Apples from ...