Ozark, Missouri has been exposed to a retired Central HS principal, Springfield school board member, and past Central HS IB student telling us just how fantastic IB is at Central High School in Springfield, Missouri. Our school board has swallowed IB hook line and sinker, with no real investigation outside of these people and visiting another district that has IB. Go to this web page and see how IB students really perform at Central HS.
http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-high-schools/listings/missouri/central-high-school-3Central High School IB Student Performance
IB Participation Rate = 25.7% - This is the percentage of IB test takers who passed (received scores of 4 or higher) on at least one IB exam.
Quality-Adjusted IB Participation Rate = 25.0% - This is the percentage of 12th graders who took and passed (received a score of 4 or higher) on at least one IB test at some point during high school.
IB Participant Passing rate = 97.3% - This is the percentage of IB test takers who passed (received scores of 4 or higher) on at least one IB exam. People will read this statistic and say "WOW" IB is great, until they understand that this is nowhere near the percentage of students that receive an IB Diploma. This very misleading!
IB Exam Pass Rate = 84.8% - This is the percentage of students taking IB tests who earned a 4 or higher. Again the stat is misleading!
IB Diploma Per IB Test Taker = 0.5% - This is the success rate. Percentage of IB participants that ultimately achieve an IB Diploma! Here it is, only 0.5% receive a Diploma! I bet ya, Central will never tell you this, at least those that have been brought in to speak to our BOE, never said it. They did use the higher numbers!
IB Diploma Per grade 12 enrollment = 0.1% - This is the Diploma Rate. The percentage of students in cohort that receive an IB Diploma!
Ladies and Gentleman this is insane. I do not agree with the districts consultant, Dr. Reed that the journey is what IB is about, not the diploma! As she said "The point is not the point!" IB is money down the rabbit hole! Speak up tell your school board members they have made a tremendous mistake!
College-ready student performance data derived from data provided by the College Board and/or International Baccalaureate of North America.
Advanced Placement student performance data derived from data provided by the College Board. Copyright © 2011. Data provided by the College Board. All rights reserved. http://www.collegeboard.com/
International Baccalaureate student performance data derived from data provided by International Baccalaureate of North America. Copyright © 2011. Data provided by International Baccalaureate of North America.
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0.1% earn the IB Diploma?????? OMG, that has to be the WORST percentage I have seen nationally. How can Pace POSSIBLY support that as a great program?
ReplyDeleteKeep uncovering the Truth, my friends. Great work!
I know. Isn't it sad that Dr. Pace is looking at his failure at Central to push it for Ozark and the lemmings hear better education without looking at the facts. It hasn't happened at Dr. Pace's old school, so why do we have trust in him at Ozark?
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