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CRCT RESULTS
VIDEO: Georgia State School Superintendent Talks About Low CRCT Scores

  • PDF: Superintendent's Statement On CRCT Results


  • LINK: Georgia Department of Education

    • Cox: 40 Percent Of Georgia Eighth-Graders Failed CRCT In Math

    Posted: 6:52 pm EDT May 19, 2008Updated: 11:04 pm EDT May 19, 2008

    ATLANTA -- State Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox put out a news release Monday on some sobering news for Georgia students.

    The official results are not in, but according to a news release 40 percent of eighth-grade students in Georgia did not pass the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) in math.

    The stakes are high. Students who don’t pass can’t automatically go on to ninth-grade.

    The numbers are even worse when it comes to sixth and seventh-grade social studies. Preliminary reports put the pass rate on those two exams at 20-30 percent.

    "While, again, we do not have statewide or system results, we are fairly certain that a substantial majority of our sixth- and seventh-grade students did not meet the standards on the Social Studies exam," said Cox.

  • PDF: Superintendent Cox Statement On CRCT Results

    • Cox said new standards and a new curriculum are partly to blame and she’s asked a group of education specialists to figure out what has caused such poor performance.

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