Four Fort Bend Independent School DIstrict high school juniors have been selected as winners in the 2009 National Achievement Scholarship Program.
The four winners – Brianna Rogers of Bush High School; Jordan Walker of Elkins High School; Ayesha Massaquoi of Hightower High School; and Kah Yangni of Travis High School – are among more than 150,000 African-American juniors from across the nation who applied for consideration into the program.
FBISD also has announced that 59 district students have been named finalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are amoung more than 1.5 million high school students in more than 21,000 schools across the country to enter the 2009 Merit Program.
Applicants to both the National Achievement Scholarship Program and National Merit Scholarship Program entered via the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Quallifying Test.
More than half of the National Merit Scholarship finalists – 37 of 59 students – came from Clements High School.
By campus, the finalists are:
→ – Austin High School – Prachi Bhawalkar, Amanda Callahan, Nirav Mehta and Nicholas Zhang;
&rarr Bush High School – Neil Thakral;
→ Clements High School – Taahir Ahmed, Andrew Badachhape, Shreya Balhara, Justin Banerdt, Natasha Bhatia, Chrisopher Chan, Hamsika Chandrasekar, Eileen Chen, Jia Chen, Christopher Clark, Ivan Davydychev, Gaurav Dhar, Anand Divakaruni, Emily Guo, Aashish Jain, Karen Jong, Brady Kirchof, Allen Lee, Princeton Lee, Vincent Liu, Ann Lord, Dennis Mou, Connie Qin, Munis Rashid, Ian Roy, Joshua Tsau, Audrey Wang, Mary Warren, Donna Xiao, Jingru Yan, Patrick Yan, Sue Yeh, Christine Younan, Chenxi Zhang, Haoshuang Zhang, Julianne Zhang and Mark Zhang;
→ Dulles High School – John Charlesworth, Jeffrey Chen, Jeffrey Feng, Charlene Lam and Kenny Lam;
→ Elkins High School – Michael Levin;
→ Hightower High School – Rahul Kamath;
→ Kempner High School – Conrad Chau, Meng Chen, Kendrice James, Yuqiang Mu, and Bryan Zubay;
→ Travis High School – Riju Agrawal, Tuongvy Dang, Steven Lauck, Alice Yang and Kah Yangni.
Winners among the finalists will be announced in April and May, FBISD said Thursday. The 8,200 National Merit Scholarship individual awards are worth a combined $35 million.
Educational research that is truly authentic and sincere regarding all children’s educational success states that when children lose ground academically, even good and excellent students, it represents that some counter occurrence has caused the educational lag/decline indicative of a variety of causes: for example, it could be caused by a change of school or school district; or the lack of thoroughness and intensity of the delivery of the instruction by those who deliver the instruction or lack of in-depth knowledge about the subject or curriculum by those who deliver the instruction; or the existence of holes/gaps in the school/district’s curriculum that is given to/mandated to those who deliver the instruction which does not thoroughly address all that students will be tested upon; or the lack of the school/district to identify the “right tools” to best and appropriately address how to proceed to improve/remediate, beef up the curriculum to overcome the existing gaps/holes in the curriculum being taught to the children, etc.
My little granddaughter scored in the mid 80th percentile on national testing this school year in her mathematics and we are, now, looking for summer math camps for her to attend this summer because something happened negative rather than positive in her school experience this year which caused a decline and a lag in her mathematics’ learning. How do we know this? We know this because last year, she scored in the mid 90th percentile in her mathematics, nationally.
I am better educated about what the national testing exhibits as a grandmother than I was as a mother. I thought previously that as long as a child was scoring above the 50th percentile, all was well—but, it was not, necessarily accurate for me to think so, particularly, if there is a continuing decline or stagnant scores that are not, necessarily low scores, but never grow from year to year. A continuing, gradual drop from 90th to 80th; from 80th to 70th from 70 to 60th and so on is an indication that even good students are losing ground in their educational achievement and something is amiss with their educational school experience. Like wise struggling student whose test scores never increase but continue to decline over time or low scores continue to stagnate and remain at the low test range; something is definitely amiss with their educational school experience.
Conclusively, twilight, you are correct to wonder—Hmmmmm, when a lag and/or decline is exhibited regarding student achievement.
Hmmm……..that’s 10 fewer than last year – but scores are going up! Hmmmm