2. Georgia Academy for Economic Development
Spring 2016: Region 9
Examine the Data for Education in Georgia
Economic Impact of Georgia Non-Graduates
Strengthening the Birth to Work Pipeline
What Can We Do?

3. Examine the Data for Education in Georgia

4. Academic Achievement Milestones
School Readiness
Literacy by 3rd Grade
Numeracy by 8th Grade
High School Graduation
This slide will be used as data organizer – begin with something like “The data we are about to see is the foundation for moving a child from early learning to a successful college/ career pathway…”
As we move through the presentation, we will talk about major milestones that lead to academic achievement…
School readiness
Literacy by 3rd grade
Numeracy by 8th grade
High School Graduation
Communities should begin by looking at the data and how their community measures up at each level
Research says we can’t wait until the end of the pipeline, we must address each of these milestones along the way.
The AEAH (Alliance of Education Agency Heads) is looking at the entire education pipeline and how each agency can be much more efficient with its resources.
Workforce and/or College Ready

5. Percent of Children with School Readiness Skills
National snapshot that illustrates how poverty effects school readiness
On average, when kids enter kindergarten – children from upper income households have heard 30 million more words than their lower income counter parts. On average, lower income children start kindergarten already behind. The achievement gap is there before school even starts.
Later on we will see how this gap plays out as children age and move through the pipeline, thus highlighting the importance of early learning.

6. Percent At or Above Proficient
NAEP 4th Grade Reading
Percent At or Above Proficient
This is proficient and advanced
NAEP score cut offs are: below basic, basic, proficient, advanced
Proficient is the level that is aligned with other college/ career ready standards: Common Core, ACT, Sat, etc.
NAEP is given to a sample of students administered every other year. It is currently the only assessment that allows state to state comparison.
20th state is Iowa. Georgia is tied for 34th.

7. Percent At or Above Proficient
NAEP 8th Grade Math
Percent At or Above Proficient
This is proficient and advanced
NAEP score cut offs are: below basic, basic, proficient, advanced
Proficient is the level that is aligned with other college/ career ready standards: Common Core, ACT, Sat, etc.
NAEP is given to a sample of students administered every other year. It is currently the only assessment that allows state to state comparison.
20th state is Wyoming. Georgia is 40th.

8. Georgia High School Graduation Rates High School Graduation Rate
Year
State
High School Graduation Rate
2011
68%
2012
70%
2013
72%
2014
73%
2015
79%
4 year cohort graduation rate (does NOT include special ed diplomas)
This chart shows the high school graduation rate. It is the new calculation method and shows the number of kids who started the 9th grade and finished the 12th grad on time.
If you look at the numbers of non-graduates, we have over 35,000 young adults who are not ready for work or college, and probably are not prepared to be the best parent they could be.
What is the graduation rate for your school district? Have they been showing improvement over the last several years? If so, give them some positive feedback! If not, ask what you can do to help improve that pipeline.
National comparison: In 2011 – only three places were lower than Georgia’s 67%, DC (59%), Nevada (62%) and New Mexico (63%)
Not reporting national numbers in 2011 were: Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma
Other southern states in 2011 – Alabama (72%), Mississippi (75%), Tn (86%), SC (74%), NC (78%)
Source: Governor’s Office of Student Achievement

9. Percent of ACT Tested High School Graduates Meeting College Readiness Benchmarks - Reading
Source: ACT, National -- The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2015

10. Percent of ACT Tested High School Graduates Meeting College Readiness Benchmarks - Math
Source: ACT, National -- The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2015

11. Economic Impact of Georgia Non-Graduates

12. Education Pays EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT & EMPLOYMENT
Unemployment % Rate*
March 2016
Median Wkly Earnings** (& approx. annual)
2.6
Bachelor’s Degree & Higher
$65,000
4.1
Some college/ Associate Degree
$40,664
5.4
HS Graduates, No College
$35,308
7.3
Less than a High School Diploma
$25,688
This comparison of the impact of education on income and unemployment rates, shows less education means higher unemployment rates and lower average earnings.
When you look at the income for a person with less than a high school diploma compared with income for a person who completes high school and even some college, it adds up to over ½ million dollars over a life time.
What does this mean for a person in terms of ability to own a car or a home?
For your community, what does it mean in terms of a person incurring debt; then if out of work and can’t pay their debt? They often start a downward, spiraling experience that hurts them, their family and sometimes even their community.
Also, for those without a high school diploma, employment is not only at a lower rate and lower salary, but also tends to be more cyclical.
Source: *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment.
**U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Table 5. Quartiles of usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers.

13. High School Graduation Rates by County
This map shows 2012 high school graduation rate by county. 4 year cohort rate. It highlights the pipeline – rate of production. How many HS graduates are entering the workforce each year.
It does not include city districts or special ed diplomas.

14. Unemployment Rate by County
This map of Georgia shows the unemployment rates by county. The darker the color the higher the unemployment.
You can see that many of the counties with higher unemployment rates are in the southern part of our state where there are also many counties challenged with what the University of Georgia categorizes as “persistent poverty” – meaning a high number of families who have persistently experienced poverty conditions for over three decades.

15. High School Non-Completion
Compounded Impacts of
High School Non-Completion
INDIVIDUALS
THE COMMUNITY
Lower Lifetime Earnings
Reduced buying power & tax revenues; less economic growth
Decreased health status; Higher mortality rates; More criminal activity
Higher health care & criminal justice costs
Higher teen pregnancy rates; Single motherhood
Higher public services costs
Less voting; Less volunteering
Low rate of community involvement
Roll those dollars up and what happens to the individual and to the community.
Lower Lifetime Earnings – can mean a difference of ½ million dollars or more for the individual
Reduced Buying Power – businesses are concerned about this. Think of what it could also man in reduced tax revenues. School systems use the SPLOST to renovate and build schools
Decreased Health Status…-- Raises many health issues
Higher Health Care…-80% of folks in prison don’t have a HS diploma; contributes to increased cost
Higher Teen Pregnancy Rates…- How many 15 – 19 year olds in your community have their 1st baby or even their 2nd baby? Realizing that a mother is a child’s first teacher, they are not always the best teacher, especially when a young teenage mother. Again, you will see some of those numbers in the KidsCount data we will share
Higher Public Service Costs –
Less Voting and Volunteering –
Less Community Involvement – This impacts the infrastructure of a community
Source: Levin, H., et al., (2007). The Costs and Benefits of an Excellent Education for All of America’s Children.

16. Strengthening the Birth to Work Pipeline

17. Strengthening the Birth to Work Pipeline
KEY ISSUE #1
Early Life Experiences
KEY ISSUE #2
Academic Achievement K-12
KEY ISSUE #3
Transitions to Work or College
We are now going to look at 3 big buckets that could fix the pipeline, plug the leaks.
Early Life Experiences – help healthy mothers have healthy babies. How do we provide good, enriching experiences?
Academic Achievement K-12 – We educate all the kids who get off the bus. Some come more prepared than others.
Teaching Quality – Can override all other areas.

18. Disparities in Early Vocabulary Growth
Professional Families ,116 words
Working Class Families words
Welfare Families words
Source: Hart, B. and Risley, T. R. (2003). “The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3.”

19. Economic Benefits of Early Education:
Perry Preschool Study
Investments in the early years are the most cost effective ways to improve students ultimate success in school and Georgia has made just such an investment with its Bright from the Start pre-K program.
And the academic gains appear to continue beyond a student’s early grades.
In one of the nation's older, more closely documented programs, Perry Preschool, researchers have followed neighborhood children into adulthood and now are able to compare what happened to participants and non-participants from a working-class, low-income area. The results are striking:
The middle-aged adults who had the benefits of the preschool are today 4 times more likely than those without the program to earn a good monthly income.
They are almost 3 times more likely to own their own home and twice as likely to have never been on welfare as an adult.
At one of the Partnership’s recent meetings, a researcher from Northwestern University, reported that studies continue to support these findings and also found that a 12% increase in work attendance was seen in those folks that had quality early learning experiences.
Source: Schweinhart, L.J., et al. (2005). Lifetime effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool study through age 40.

20. Essential Building Blocks of High Performing States
Higher Standards
Rigorous Curriculum
Clear Accountability System
Statewide Student Information System
Leadership Training
This slide begins to lay the ground work for the perfect storm/ trifecta slide.
This is issue #1 – increased standards and accountability – we are asking more from our students. All our students.
Higher standards -
early learning – Georgia early learning standards (GELS) developmental benchmarks for infant – 4 year olds (including PreK) has been aligned with the new kindergarten common core standards.
K-12 – college and career ready standards, more rigorous, focus on higher order critical thinking skills and less on memorizing facts/figures
Rigorous Curriculum
Education Week Quality Counts report, Georgia was given an A- on curriculum, assessments and standards, ranking us 14th in the nation.
NOTE _ Standards are the “what” the curriculum is the “how”
Standard - understand basic addition (2+2=4)
Curriculum – how the teacher teaches addition – worksheets, drawings, counting individual objects, etc.
Governor Mike Huckabee recently used a football analogy to explain the difference. An example of a standard is the game rule that you need ten yards to gain a first down. Curriculum encompasses all of the options available to the team on offense to achieve that goal.
Clear Accountability System
No longer using AYP, now have the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI), contains up to 18 different indicators to produce a score for schools and districts. Also includes a star rating system for school climate and financial efficiency. Schools/districts can use this system as an improvement tool to focus resources in high need areas.
Student Info System – we now have one - Need this in place so we can track cohorts of kids. With a unique student identifier number, we cam follow students' academic progress as they move from grade to grade; we can identify consistently high-performing schools so that educators and the public can learn from best practices; can evaluate the effect of teacher preparations and training programs on student achievement.
Leadership Training –2nd to teacher quality is leadership quality. Many of our principals and superintendents never learned basic piece of business-driven leadership training before. Through GLISI (Leadership Institute) this is a way to focus on student achievement as their bottom line. Some of that training includes…
Data analysis
Performance management issues
Root cause analysis
Looking at metrics
Why are we not performing as well as states with similar demographics? We did not have all of the essential building blocks in place as long as states like NC, TX, VA. We just started this about 8 years ago; other states have been working at putting all the pieces in place longer.

21. The Missing 63% 100 Georgia 9th Graders Enter High School!
10/31/2011
The Missing 63%
100 Georgia 9th Graders Enter High School!
79 graduate HS
59 enroll in higher education
Source: Ga DOE school year, calculations by Atlanta Regional Commission estimates
37 make it to their sophomore year
Source: Ga DOE school year, calculations by Atlanta Regional Commission estimates

22. The Changing Face of Georgia
Issue #2 for trifecta/perfect storm slide. Where our population is growing…
“living in poverty” are those living below the poverty line.
Next slide is graduation rates of our fastest growing populations…
Source: U.S Census Data

23. 4-Year Graduation Rate, 2015 Georgia All Students 79% Low-Income 75%
English Language Learners
56%
50.4% of all new babies are non-white
Economic standpoint – job growth areas are in high skills labor, STEM, health care – traditionally under represented by minorities.
Cheapest and easiest ways to close these achievement gaps is to invest in early education and early literacy.
Disconnect – need the foundation to make sure ALL kids are reading on grade level.
Can’t do business as usual – we will fail.
Source: Georgia Department of Education.

24. Georgia Needs: The Economic Development Pipeline
60% of jobs in 2020 will require some higher education
42% of Georgian’s currently have a post-secondary degree
We do not currently have the workforce necessary to support our economic development needs to allow Georgia to be economically competitive – not only with other states, but internationally as well.
The 250,000 is a target set by the Complete College Georgia Plan out of the Governor’s office.
Goal:
250,000 new graduates by 2025
Source: Complete College Georgia,: Georgia’s Higher Education Completion Plan 2012

25. Georgia’s Future Workforce
1. Increasing demand for highly skilled labor force +
2. Changing demographics +
3. Increasing academic rigor and expectations =
Perfect Storm?
Positive Collective
Impact?

26. What can we do?

27. Profile of Child Wellbeing and Academic Achievement
Source: Georgia Kids Count, Georgia Family Connection Partnership,

28. Teen Birth Rates Per 1,000
Source: Georgia Kids Count, Georgia Family Connection Partnership,

29. Percent Teens Not Working or in School
Source: Georgia Kids Count, Georgia Family Connection Partnership,

30. Percent Low-Income by School District
Source: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, State Report Cards.

31. Percent Low-Income and Exceeds 3rd Grade Reading CRCT
Montgomery # of tested 3rd grade reading students for SY was 70 students.
Source: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, State Report Cards.

32. Percent Low-Income by School District
Source: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, State Report Cards.

33. Percent Low-Income and Exceeds 8th Grade Math CRCT
Source: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, State Report Cards.

34. Percent Low-Income by School District
Source: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, State Report Cards.

35. Percent Low-Income and HS Graduation
Sources: The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement (2014); Georgia Department of Education, CCRPI Data Files (2015)

36. How Will You Insulate the Birth to Work Pipeline?
ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY SERVICES
Transportation Health Housing Financial
How Will You Insulate the Birth to Work Pipeline?
K – 12 System
LEARNING & SOCIAL SUPPORTS
Childcare Providers
Afterschool Programs
Academic Supports
Job Training
Civic Opportunities
Early Childhood
Post Secondary
Work & Career
Source: The Forum for Youth Investment

37. Help Insulate the Pipeline
Early Childhood
Read to children every day: “Talk to Me Baby”
Encourage participation of your early learning centers: “Quality Rated”
K – 12 System
Leverage partnerships with business and post-secondary – internships and mentoring
Consider dual enrollment high school/college: “Move on When Ready”
Pay for Advanced Placement (AP) exams
Post Secondary
Provide internships/ apprenticeships
Participate and support: “Go Back. Move Ahead.”
College access talking point – GPEE has a grant from Board of Regents to Coweta County to reach out to their college drop outs and get them back into college to get a 2 or 4 year degree. 37

38. Aligning Educational Strategies for
Collective Impact
Random Acts of Improvement
GOALS
Partially Aligned Acts of Improvement
GOALS
If your efforts are not aligned, whether in business or schools, it’s going to be harder to stay focused and reach your goal. How many of your schools have random acts that compete against each other?
If we are all aimed in the same direction with focus on the same goal, it can be reached. In business, that goal is profits; in education, that goal is student achievement.
Aligned Acts of Improvement
GOALS

39. Connect with us Twitter: @GAPartnership
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