It might seem extreme to you for me to write about the psychological abuse of children in schools. However, at the end of the post, I hope you will understand why I did. Although the content of this post might seem to some to be controversial, I believe that...
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has established a single variable as the way to reward and punish schools, teachers, students and their parents. The fact that I have used the terms "rewards" and punishments" is evidence enough that the ED is stuck in 19th...
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...
