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St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.

Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.

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Becket Federated Church
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North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.

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BArT Indentified as 'High-Growth' by State

01:23PM / Wednesday, October 28, 2009

ADAMS, Mass. – Based on data released from the state yesterday, BArT has been identified as a "high growth" school in both English language arts and math.

This label indicates that the typical student at BArT grows more than his or her academic peers across the state. BArT was the only school district in Berkshire County identified as "high growth" in both ELA and math.

Additionally:

* BArT 8th grade students were 2nd in the state for growth on the ELA exam.

* BArT 10th grade students were 11th in the state for growth on the ELA exam.

* BArT achieved the highest growth in math among the 17 districts in Berkshire County and was in the top 14% of districts statewide.

* BArT achieved the third highest growth in ELA in Berkshire County and was in the top 10 percent of districts statewide.

“This achievement is the direct result of the academic program we put in place that enables us to target instruction where students need it most,” said Benjamin Klompus, Principal. “At BArT, we have seen students at all levels of achievement grow significantly in our program. These results show we know how to meet the needs of struggling students and high achieving students.”

The state’s new measure, called the “growth model”, measures how an individual student’s growth compares to students with similar score histories across the state.

“This is a very important improvement to MCAS reporting. Now families can see how much their child has grown over the course of the year, and how effective a school is at growing the students it has,” said Julia Bowen, Executive Director.

Growth for individual students is measured by comparing the change in his or her MCAS performance from one year to the next to that of their "academic peers," other students in the state with a similar MCAS performance history. This "student growth percentile" (SGP) indicates how high or low a student's growth was as compared to their academic peers.

School and district growth reports are developed by aggregating the student growth percentiles for all students in the school or district to determine the median student growth percentile.

According to the ESE data, the median or “typical” student at Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School (BArT) grew at the 61st percentile in ELA and at the 61st percentile in mathematics.
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BArT does not "hand pick" students. All students from the sending districts in grades 6 through 9 are welcome to enroll.
from: Eduk8on: 11-03-2009

Considering that BaRT has small class sizes and hand-picks the students who are accepted into the school, I would expect to see an improvement in test scores.
from: Equally Concernedon: 11-02-2009

In answer to your question - this data from the state says that Bart's students grew more than students with similar historical scores - low or high. If Bart is called "high growth", that means they do a better job of raising scores than most other districts statewide whether the students were low or high performing before. Great job, Bart!
from: Educator, tooon: 11-01-2009

What are the actual MCAS scores? This article talks only of "growth'? When the previous scores are very low then just raising them to a somewhat poor level shows growth. I mean, good for Bart but seriously, they had no way to go but up.
from: educatoron: 10-31-2009

Right on - this needs to make it into the Eagle too.
Go BArT! Great work kids ***
from: Proud Momon: 10-30-2009

Why hasn't this made it to the Transcript or the Eagle?
from: I wonder..on: 10-30-2009



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