Article #21 >>>>> Origin and Consequences of Wretched Public Education Throughout the United States

The Abysmal Knowledge and Skill Levels of Students in the Minneapolis Public Schools

Between 2021 and autumn 2021, 4,811 students departed the Minneapolis Public Schools to seek education elsewhere, the result of a drop in enrollment from 33,500 to 28,689.

Poignantly, very few of those students found better education in the near suburbs, charter, or parochial schools;  public education is rarely good and most often terrible  >>>>>

Students at the preK-5 level, wherever they matriculate, are likely in the extreme to master no rigorous, systematically imparted knowledge sets pertinent to natural science, history, government, geography, quality literature, or the fine arts. Middle school features more courses in those areas but those courses are knowledge-deficient.  At the high school level, only Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses have the potential for academic substance but are often taught by teachers who do not possess the requisite knowledge base.

Administrators and teachers in the Minneapolis Public Schools are themselves ill-educated and poorly positioned to signal any reason why students should not seek any other options, as forlorn as are the alternatives.  This is particularly true for nonwhite students, as the following presentation indicates  >>>>>

Academic Proficiency as Indicated Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 

Academic Years Ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021

 

(Note  >>>>>      The MCAs were not administered for the academic year ending in 2020.)

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African American            

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

22%     21%    21%    21%    22%    23%   19%

American Indian

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

 21%    20%    21%    23%    24%    25%   20%

Asian/Pacific Islander    

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021          

41%     40%   45%    41%     48%    50%   54%

Hispanic        

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

23%     25%   26%    26%     27%    27%   20%

White                

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

78%      77%   77%    78%    80%   78%    74%

All Students      

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

42%      42%     43%      43%      45%      47%    46%

 

Mathematics

(Note  >>>>>      The MCAs were not administered for the academic year ending in 2020.)

African American             

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021

22%     23%    21%   18%    18%    18%     9%

 

American Indian         

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

23%     19%    19%   17%     17%    18%    9%

Asian/Islander                

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

48%     50%   50%    47%    50%    47%    46%

Hispanic            

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

31%     32%    31%   29%     26%    25%   12%

 

White                

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

71%     75%    71%   70%     71%    70%   61%

 

All Students      

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

44%     44%   44%    42%    42%     42%   35%

 

Science

(Note  >>>>>      The MCAs were not administered for the academic year ending in 2020.)

African American

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

11%     15%     13%   12%    11%    11%    11% 

American Indian          

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

14%     16%   13%    17%     14%    17%     9%

Asian/Pacific Islander                

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

31%     35%    42%    35%    37%   40%    43%

 

Hispanic            

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

17%     18%    21%   19%    17%     16%   10%

White                

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

71%     75%    71%    70%   71%    70%    61%

 

All Students      

2014    2015   2016    2017    2018    2019    2021 

33%     36%   35%     34%    34%    36%   36%