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Kentucky test results offer glimpse into how Common Core assessments will affect Georgia and other states | Get Schooled

Kentucky test results offer glimpse into how Common Core assessments will affect Georgia and other states | Get Schooled:




Kentucky test results offer glimpse into how Common Core assessments will affect Georgia and other states

Noteworthy scores out of Kentucky, the first state to introduce tests explicitly tied to the Common Core State Standards.
Kentucky is part of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a consortium of 23 states including Georgia that is developing a common set of k-12 assessments in English and math grounded in what it takes to be ready for college and careers.  Those assessments will be ready for states to administer during the 2014-15 school year
While the new Kentucky tests are not the PARCC tests, they are closely aligned and thus seen as a harbinger of things to come.
And what’s coming will initially be disappointing,  although expected. Testing experts say that a conversion to a


Cherokee Schools name its teacher of the year: Sandy Giudice

Cherokee school chief Frank R. Petruzielo surprised Sandy Giudice with the district's Teacher of the Year award today.Cherokee school chief Frank R. Petruzielo surprised Sandy Giudice with the district's Teacher of the Year award today.
Here is some more good news. This is the release from Cherokee County about its teacher of the year.
(Other district ought to send me their news about teachers of the year.)
From Cherokee County:
Macedonia Elementary School teacher Sandy Giudice’s third-grade classroom looks like what you 


Family gives half million to Decatur Ed Foundation in gratitude to teachers and staff.

Email messages encouraged Decatur families to come to the downtown square this evening to hear an “important announcement.”
It was good news: A Decatur family gave the Decatur Education Foundation its single largest gift to date, $500,000 to provide educational support to the city’s students.
“This gift will allow us to continue to build on the work accomplished over the past 10 years to ensure that every