ADE Briefs

LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas’s ACT scores saw an increase according to the 2012 ACT report.  Eighty-eight (88) percent of Arkansas’s 2012 graduating seniors took the ACT and had an average composite score of 20.3, up from 19.9 last year. The national average composite score was 21.1, the same as in 2012. “Arkansas continues to see [...]

Online, searchable Model Content Frameworks also released. Washington, D.C. – August 20, 2012 – The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a 23-state consortium working together to create next generation assessments, today released its first set of item and task prototypes for both English language arts/literacy and mathematics. The prototypes are illustrative of how [...]

LITTLE ROCK—Public engagement and communication are major areas of focus for the Arkansas Department of Education. In an effort to keep our many audiences up to date on the work of the Department and services and resources available to schools and school districts, we undertook a redesign of our website. Six months in development, the [...]

LITTLE ROCK — Nineteen public schools from throughout the state were recently designated as 2011 Exemplary Schools by the Arkansas Department of Education. Exemplary schools are those demonstrating high student academic performance, schools with large populations of at-risk students with high academic performance, schools with high student academic progress, and schools with high populations of at [...]

Christi Snow Schrauger, a first grade mathematics teacher at Harp Elementary School in Springdale, was recently selected as the Arkansas State Finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Schrauger, a teacher in the Springdale system for 7 years, is now eligible to receive a PAEMST award, the nation’s highest [...]