APS fourth-grade students scored on a par with their counterparts in other large urban school districts across the nation in the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) science exam administered in the spring of 2009. The average science score for fourth grade students in Atlanta was 134. […]
“Atlanta should be confident that its school system, while continuing to need improvement, has made real and sizable gains for its children of which the citizenry can be justifiably proud,” writes Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, in an op-ed piece published in the June 7 edition of the […]
UPDATE: Watch the video here. APS students demonstrated the largest gains of all states and participating Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) school districts in the nation between 2002 and 2009 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading tests, the results of which were released this morning during a news conference at the Atlanta […]
A seven-member Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) team spent three days this week (Nov. 30-Dec. 2) interviewing APS principals, administrators, parents and community leaders and reviewing a large amount of data as part of the Washington, D.C.-based group’s assessment of the district’s performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in […]
Georgia is one of just 15 states to show significant improvement in eighth-grade mathematics, according to national test results released today. The information came in a press release from the Georgia Department of Education. Here’s the most impressive part … Georgia is one of 15 states that shows statistically-significant improvement on the Mathematics NAEP when […]