I wrote in the last two posts I openned a discussion about the phenomenon of state-wide testing that determines whether students are retained or passed (out) on to the next grade. The results, as I pointed out in Georgia, are not exactly "world-class" although...
So says Georgia Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, and Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue. We'll make the bar higher; make the curriculum tougher; and test them till the sun goes down. Not a quote, but that's their idea. According to Cox, "we could not wait any longer."...
So says Georgia Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, and Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue. We'll make the bar higher; make the curriculum tougher; and test them till the sun goes down. Not a quote, but that's their idea. According to Cox, "we could not wait any longer."...
Yesterday I wrote about the hoax of standards, and the call to throw out state-wide tests. Recently the Georgia Department of Education released preliminary results based on the CRCT tests that were administered state-wide in the spring. You can go the Department of...
I wanted to write about our nations obsession with testing the daylights out of students in our schools, K-12 about a week ago, but got side-tracked by writing about climate change! Go figure. The State of Georgia released the results of its state-wide testing...
I wanted to write about our nations obsession with testing the daylights out of students in our schools, K-12 about a week ago, but got side-tracked by writing about climate change! Go figure. The State of Georgia released the results of its state-wide testing...
