crct

Georgia has decided to invalidate the scores on the social studies portion of the CRCT that more than 70% of the state’s students failed.  However, the scores of the 40% of 8th graders who failed the math portion will stand.

When 40% of an individual teacher’s students fail a standardized test, I imagine the teacher would be scrutinized, and rightly so. Whatever I think of standardized tests, 40% of a teacher’s students shouldn’t fail one, or something’s wrong with the teacher’s instruction. If 40% of a school’s students failed a standardized test, the school might…