Tough New Tests Hit Geogia Students Hard

By Kate Sweeney

Atlanta, GA – It looks like thousands of students in Georgia will be headed to summer school this year, to see if they can boost their end-of-year test scores.

State Superintendent Kathy Cox says that middle-schoolers in particular, struggled with math and science scores on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test - or C-R-C-T, for short.

Sixth and seventh-graders saw a passage rate of around 60 percent for math, and seventh graders had a similar pass-rate for science.

Superintendent Cox says that tougher curriculums for those areas are the reason for the lackluster test scores by middle-school students.

WABE's Kate Sweeney has more on the story.