Computer glitches cause problems in statewide test
Parents, teachers and the state Department of Education all agreed, there were glitches on the Georgia Milestones tests last week.
The tests, one of the more important for students and the state in understanding how much learning and good teaching is going on, is administered online. Like any computer-based event, tests can have their moments of the endlessly spinning beach balls or freezing up, making an already more stressful even more stressful.
Our education blogger, Maureen Downey, collected comments about incidents from parents here in Georgia in a recent post. Give it a read, and feel free to add your own comment.
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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.
