Common Core may create common problem for Georgia and other states: Lower test scores
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Several readers alerted me to education historian Diane Ravitch’s op-ed in the New York Daily News about the drop in student test scores in New York as a result of introducing new tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
Georgia’s first statewide test reflective of the higher standards and more advanced content in the Common Core was the End of Course Test in coordinate algebra.
A large majority — 63 percent — of students who took the coordinate algebra test this past spring failed to meet the state standard.. Ten of the 15 school districts in the metro area had failure rates above 50 percent, including Clayton County (77.9 percent), Atlanta Public Schools (77 percent) and DeKalb County (74.3 percent).}
"The coordinate algebra results give us a first look at the new level of rigor that is coming with new federal criteria for statetests, where the expectations to mee standards will increase significantly, " Georgia school Superintendent John Barge said when the test results were released.
Here is an excerpt of Ravitch's essay. Before commenting, please read the full piece here:
Test scores across New York State have collapsed, new results released Wednesday showed. Last year, 55% of students in the state passed the reading test; 65% passed