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Barrow students continue to lag in Math

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Mike Buffington

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Wednesday, August 8. 2012

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Barrow County board of education members expressed dismay with a test score review that showed the system’s high school students are still lagging in math. That has been a subject the system has been weak in for several years. During a presentation delivered at last week’s work session, Matt Thompson, testing and data specialist for Barrow County Schools, reported that End-of-Course Tests for high school students lagged in Math I and Math 2 when compared to state averages. Additionally, ninth-grade literature scores were lower. While elementary and middle school math results are “right there, where we need to be,” high school math is not, Thompson said.
For the full story, see the Aug. 8 issue of the Barrow Journal.

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#1 Mike M on 08/08/12 at 09:45 AM [Reply]

Base teachers' pay increases on their students' performance. Crappy teachers = crappy students

#2 Steven on 08/08/12 at 10:54 AM [Reply]

They only care to push them thru, so they can collect that Gov't money. No real teaching goes on anymore. There may be the exception here or there, but for the most part we are insured that the average student today will be far less educated than the generation before. Woe to us!

#3 Mike M on 08/08/12 at 11:49 AM [Reply]

Is it ironic that our teachers can continually produce sub-par results year in and year out and still expect a resonable level of job security and pay increases? Take this level of performance into the private sector and see how quick you're put into the unemployment line.

And before all you upset teachers start in on "it's the bad students' fault" or "it's the bad parents' fault".... Please read the article. It plainly states that elementary and middle school scores are right where they need to be. So this tells us that the students going into high school are in fact good students with test scores proving this to be true. But once in high school these good students fall behind the rest of the state, again with test scores proving this to be true. The logical conclusion using common sense along with testing data advailable would simply be that the high school teachers has failed to properly teach our students. Unless these non-performing teachers are properly addressed then this troubling trend will continue.

#4 Todd on 08/08/12 at 01:38 PM [Reply]

America is 25th among other nations in math and science. Georgia is 48th in the nation. As long as you look no further than the local community you will never find a solution to this issue.

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