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Advancing the Goal of Ending Education as We Know It

As part of Asora's effort to justify it raison d'etre we have generated a number of reports over the past five years that address relevant issues. In one group we have reports that are specifically focused on the development of Asora's Stellar Schools, while in the other group are reports more analytical in nature that explore public policy issues of relevance and associated reform strategies. On this page we describe the reports in this latter category. For reports that are focused on the development of Stellar Schools, including the business plan, please go to Reports on Development.

Asora® Reports on Public Policy and Reform
In reverse chronological order, we here list the reports that can be downloaded. By clicking here, you will be taken to the download page.

OKProfNumsFullReport_01.doc is a report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school in Oklahoma. The results are obtained by removing the inflation from the numbers reported by the state. Its clear message is that pervasive social promotion is largely responsible for the poor performance of these schools.

NJProfNumsLongDraft_04.doc is a report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school in Hudson County in New Jersey. The results are qualitatively similar to those just mentioned in Oklahoma.

PAProfNumsFullReport_01.doc is a report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school in Pennsylvania. The results were obtained by removing the inflation from the numbers reported by the state. As in Oklahoma, its clear message is that pervasive social promotion is largely responsible for the poor performance of these schools.

VenturaProfNums.doc is a report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school in Ventura County in California. The results are qualitatively similar to those just mentioned in Hudson County, New Jersey.

RIProfs2005TechReport.doc is a recent (but somewhat out of date) detailed report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school and district in Rhode Island. As in the preceding report, social promotion is endemic- even in the least bad schools. We are currently drafting an updated report based on 2007 testing.

RIProfs2005BasicReport.doc is an abreviated version of the preceding entry RIProfNumsTechReport.doc.

RI_Regents_01.doc is a one-page presentation to the Rhode Island Board of Regents about reforming its K-12 schools.

GrtrPvdProfNums.doc is an older report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in public schools in Rhode Island and a nearby Massachusetts county. Except for high schools, the results are reported for districts only.

PvdProfNums.doc is an older report that presents realistic NAEP scale proficiency percentages for students in every public school in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. It is similar to the preceding report but is more detailed. It shows how student proficiencies can go as low as 2% of students being at or above grade level.

EdReform-External-2007.doc is a report that describes activities that stakeholders can consider that would indirectly and externally put pressure on schools to improve.

EdReform-Internal-2007.doc is a report that describes policy changes that could revolutionize publicly supported education.

OnStateProfNums.doc is a report that discusses how the states of California, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island inflate proficiency percentages on achievement tests, how to remove that "inflation," and then shows how poorly American students are doing.

MapToNAEP.doc is a report that presents the derivation of a reliable mapping formula that removes the inflation from state reported proficiency percentages on achievement tests.

RealDropOuts_01.doc is a short report on real dropout rates in public education. Think 80%.

KTChildAbuse.doc is an essay discussing whether public and private K-12 education systems are sometimes, perhaps unwittingly, abusive of American children.

ProfitableEducation.doc, is an early report that outlined in some detail the reasoning behind Stellar Schools.

AppendiciesProfblEd.doc contains the appendices of the just mentioned Profitable Education.doc wherein more detailed analyses are presented.

Please contact us for further information about Stellar Schools.