Some Cobb County students struggle to pass Milestones test

The results from Georgia’s first set of Milestones exams released Monday show some students in Cobb County schools struggling to pass.

The old Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) and high school End of Course Tests “set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation,” state Superintendent Richard Woods said in September when the statewide average scores were released.

The state's new standardized test is harder to pass, and the results released Monday show students struggling in metro Atlanta schools.

For third-grade English, a core subject, DeKalb County had the worst showing among major urban Atlanta districts, with 43.7 percent failing. Atlanta Public Schools had a 41.3 percent failure rate in the same grade and subject. In Cobb, that number was 24.8 percent.

Read the details, the analysis and the reaction at the myAJC.com education page.

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