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State AYP results say nothing about educational quality

The Minnesota Department of Education released Adequate Yearly Progress data on Tuesday, which highlights how Minnesota schools are doing under the No Child Left Behind Act. The number of schools that did not make AYP in 2008 was 937, up from 727 in 2007.

AYP attempts to measure schools’ overall proficiency based on the results of standardized testing and assessments. The goal of NCLB is to have schools be 100 percent proficient by 2014.

According to Education Minnesota President Tom Dooher, "All we get from No Child Left Behind is an annual list that tells us nothing about student growth, nothing about the effectiveness of instruction and nothing about how our schools are really performing. Minnesotans deserve a real accountability system that includes meaningful measurements, incentives for improvement and research-based solutions."

For more information on AYP and a list of individual school's data, visit the Minnesota Department of Education Web site.