Education policy means that student after student, cohort after cohort,
will have experiences that last a lifetime. This visual expands the time period
covered in the visual
for the first years to see the implications as time goes on.
Notice how this change that started in 2000 plays out over the following
years, especially with the key years for the basics of evidence in the 6th, 7th, and 8th
grades. (You can see real examples
of what these students TODAY think is evidence. When you click on the link,
the collection of examples is at the bottom half of that webpage. The top half
of that webpage provides links to some of the national observations of the
characteristics of our students today.)
The chart can help you see:
1. These groups as they age and become Workers – Voters with these colors highlighting the cohorts before the changed policies and after
2.
Notice the comparative
quantities of these groups. Look at the numbers of orange rows—and the gray
3.
Look at how long the consequences last. The chart
ends with 2030, but the last
column gives you an estimated year when these students leave the work
force at age 68.
Student |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 STOPPED |
2011 |
2012 |
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2015 |
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2018 |
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2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
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2028 |
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2030 |
Turns 68 |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
2050 |
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11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
2051 |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
2052 |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
2053 |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2054 |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2055 |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2056 |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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2057 |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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2058 |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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2059 |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
2060 |
1st grade |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2061 |
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1st grade |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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2062 |
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1st grade |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2063 |
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1st grade |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
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Worker-Voter |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2064 |
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2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
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2065 |
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2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2066 |
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1st grade |
2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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Starts career |
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Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
Worker-Voter |
2067 |
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2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
7th grade |
8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
Starts college |
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2068 |
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3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
6th grade |
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8th grade |
9th grade |
10th grade |
11th grade |
12th grade |
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2069 |
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2nd grade |
3rd grade |
4th grade |
5th grade |
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Worker-Voter |
2070 |
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2071 |
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2073 |
“The majority
of Texas districts have policies mandating minimum grades — typically a 50 —
for any grading period, according to the lawsuit. The districts contend that awarding an even lower grade could make it
impossible for students to pass the course.… The Klein school district has banned report card grades lower than 50 for
nine years, according to district spokeswoman Trazanna Moreno.”
From "Houston-area
districts sue over grading policy They say state education chief has wrong idea about ‘honest grades’ law
By ERICKA MELLON HOUSTON CHRONICLE Nov.
19, 2009, 9:27PM. The policy ended about 2010.
Learning by accident about the districts’ policy explained what had
looked unexplainable: a sudden increase in 2008 of a problem—an increase that
seems to become the new norm:
§
Students passively copied words, either outright
plagiarism or what The Bedford Handbook describes
as “half-copy” plagiarism.
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These students also
had another trait in common: they misread and had numerous factual errors.
§
Finally, these students were certain—even indignant
in their certainty—that they were right about what the world wanted.
Turning a piece of notebook paper on its side and logging in pencil what
is now typed in the table revealed the pattern. The students who were
graduating from high school when the new policies started did not seem
different in skills from those from the prior years. The students in 2008 who
seemed to become the new norm did
have something in common: They were the first to have experienced the 6th,
7th, and 8th grades under the new system. For many of us
as students, these were the years when teachers made sure we had mastered the
basics of what is plagiarism, what is a reliable source, and what is evidence.
These students seem to have missed “telling” feedback. Dörner’s work explains the
need for such feedback and the rise of “magical” hypotheses when people do not
receive it. For examples of our students’ “magical” hypotheses, including
about evidence, click here.
When you click on the link, the collection of examples is at the bottom half of
that webpage. The top half of that webpage provides links to some of the
national observations of the characteristics of our students today.)
The report Are U.S. Students Ready
to Compete? at http://educationnext.org/are-u-s-students-ready-to-compete/
comments on this time frame for change:
“a 20-year delay before any school reform is completed and the newly
proficient students begin their working careers.”
Copyright 2010-2012 C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. |
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[1] “Driving a No. 2 pencil into the heart of the testing monster” By PATRICIA KILDAY HART, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, May 2, 2012
[2] In practical terms, the gap between starting college and starting a career may be any number of years (not just four) and, with a changing economy, students may return to higher education repeatedly to retrain for other careers.