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...
In the last post, I made reference to the concept of "culture of learning," in my discussion of the drop-out problem in America's high schools. (note: America is not the only nation that has a poor track record of graduating students from secondary schools---its...
Or at least, that seems to be the situation in American high schools. According to statistics compiled by The Gates Foundation, and reported on their website Stand Up, one-third of public high school students will not graduate. You can investigate the statistics for...
