Georgia released a lot of data about every school in the state which is summarized by a score attained through the College and Career Ready Performance Index. When the results were released this week by John Barge, State Superintendent of Education, the focus was on...
Latest Story The Georgia Department of Education would have you believe that the College & Career Ready Performance Index is based on scientific research, and is a valid and reliable "index" of school performance. Each year during the spring, about 1.6 million...
Latest Story The Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) released two year's worth of data based on CRCT tests. The CRCT data is used to grade each school in Georgia, on a 100 point scale. The score is determined by four numbers weighted as follows Achievement on...
It seems as if one Georgia couple says yes. In Marietta, a Georgia a couple has refused to allow their children at the West Side Elementary school to take the high-stakes Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). These parents informed the school's principal...
Reblogged from Stop the CRCT Madness by Stephanie Jones. Dr. Jones' research engages the intersections of social class, gender, and race with language, literacies, and educational equity with a particular interest in social class and poverty. You can follow...
Latest Story In my earlier post, I urged Atlanta's new superintendent to explain to the Atlanta community why using high-stakes achievement measures, such as increasing achievement scores while raising the bar, should not be used to measure school performance. Yet,...
