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Monday, December 19, 2005
My Predictions
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So the ajc’s queen ‘o blogs wants me to post five predictions on my beat for next year. Here goes…
Heated public policy debate over illegal immigrants, focusing on their impact on schools.
Credibility problems for Georgia’s curriculum test - the CRCT. Rosy results seem out of sync with other tests, including NAEP and the SAT.
Declining relevance of NCLB. More flexibility for subgroups such as special education students. More schools making adequate progress but still posting relatively low test scores. More schools missing testing goals year after year and not changing one bit. More reasons for parents to disregard this federal law.
Superintendent Kathy Cox cruises to re-election, the evolution fiasco a distant memory. (Any challengers out there?)
Get Schooled readers stop jumping on each other for every typo and misspelled word, declaring it proof that Georgia is without question LAST IN EDUCATION. (Hey, a girl can dream!)
Get Schooled readers what are your predictions for education in 2006?
