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State agency makes example of Glynn test gains (The Brunswick News)
By BRANDEE A. THOMASThe Brunswick NewsState officials are pointing to big gains made since 2006 by Glynn County students on the Criterion Referenced Competency Test as an example other school systems in Georgia should follow.
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Testing becomes constant in kindergarten (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The Lawrenceville kindergarten lesson begins with circle time. Children rush to their spots on the carpet giggling and teetering into squat position unaware that a new series of tests soon will follow. Katie Wright of Dyer Elementary School introduces a shy girl with brown hair named Mariana Morales as the focus of the lesson. The girl's first name is written on construction paper. "What do we ...
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Are we leaving any students behind? Educators say federal mandates needs revisions (The Gainesville Times)
"The main things that we've been telling them when we go to Washington every year is ... it can take three or four in some schools, special needs students or students of second languages to cause a school not to meet AYP. We believe there needs to be some changes in that."
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Three more schools make AYP (The Union-Recorder)
Baldwin County Schools learned Tuesday that three additional schools will likely meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) following summer retest results.
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Education plan calls for replacing 3 of Utah's tests (Deseret Morning News)
The Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Assessment has been given the task of examining the state's current testing system.
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Schools address AYP failures (Helena Independent Record)
Nearly all of Helena’s schools that did not meet adequate yearly progress, or AYP, standards set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act failed because of lower marks by economically challenged students.
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86 percent failing test got a pass (The Augusta Chronicle)
Although 1,715 Richmond County schoolchildren failed a state test required for promotion, most of them have moved on to the next grade, according to records released by the school system.
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Districts voice concerns over proposed test revamping (Deseret Morning News)
Some school districts have grave concerns about a $65 million plan to revamp the state's student-testing process, as is proposed by the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Assessment.
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Results presented from KISD mandatory fitness testing (Copperfield Sun)
The 2007-2008 school year marked the first for mandatory fitness testing of children in the Klein Independent School District.
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Most students promoted despite CRCT failure (Rome News-Tribune)
A majority of Rome City and Floyd County students who failed the state mandated Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in what are called the gateway grades were still promoted on to the next level.Students in third, fifth and eighth grades must pass portions of the CRCT exams to move on to the next grade.Third-grade students must pass the reading part of the exam. Fifth- and eighth-graders must ...
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