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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Education story of 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I think Clayton County losing its accreditation was the education story of the year.
In case anyone forgot, SACS stripped Clayton schools of its accreditation in August citing the school board as dysfunctional and hampering everything from teaching and learning to staffing to allocation of resources. Clayton was the first system in the county to lose its accreditation in nearly 40 years.
Of course this wasn’t the only story of the year.
There was the debacle over the CRCTs. The state threw out the sixth- and seventh-grade social studies scores. Parents, teachers and students demanded to know so many of the math scores were so low.
That leads us to another big story - the rollout of the new math curriculum. Some love it, but many of you have said you hate it.
We haven’t even touched on budget problems, school closings, charter school districts and Gwinnett’s plan to set its own rules.
What do you think were the big education stories of the year? What should we expect in 2009?
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