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Georgia Academia -- statistics

Georgia gets an A in teaching of world history
Beth Furtwangler - Cox News Service
Thursday, June 8, 2006

Washington --- Georgia schools' standards for teaching world history rank high in a new national study.

The report on the State of State World History Standards gave just 16 states a passing grade and cited Georgia as one of eight states to receive an A.

Two-thirds of states earned a D or an F. Joining Georgia with an A were California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Indiana, New York, Minnesota and South Carolina.

The study was conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education.

Historian Walter Russell Mead, who conducted the study, said he was aghast at what he found. His report is especially critical of a lack of standards for teaching history and culture of Latin America . He found many states overlooked these histories while focusing on European history.

"A working knowledge of world history is socially, politically, economically, and culturally indispensable for young Americans," Mead said in a statement.

Georgia scored 156 of a possible 170 points in the study, the first to evaluate states' standards for teaching kindergarten through 12th-grade world history. These standards are what a student is expected to know in the subject.

For Latin American and Mexican history and culture, Georgia scored a 9 on a scale of zero to 10.

"The future of Georgia hinges on a global economy," State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox said in a statement. "I know that our new world history standards will prepare our students to succeed in that global environment

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I tutored first graders for about two weeks on the CRCT test (see Community Service blog). Georgia went up a few points, but as usual, blacks are hovering at the bottom


http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/index/crctscores/grade1.html

posted by ~Kesh @ 6/08/2006 09:19:00 AM