I’m not a big fan of the CRCT, especially since I’ve seen some of the old questions used for practice, and making AYP is only about getting students who are struggling over the low bar, not about getting more students over a middle or high bar. Nonetheless, given no option to substitute something better for NCLB, AYP-land, and the CRCT, it’s great that all CSD schools made AYP.

I don’t quite understand how the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT), which is what AYP for high schools is based on, relates to the End of Course tests which high school students take at the end of every year for certain core subjects. If I’m reading the State DOE info correctly, I think the GHSGT is only taken by 11th and 12th graders. If that’s true, then it seems like the performance of 9th and 10th graders isn’t figured into AYP. But maybe I just don’t understand yet.