State Taps CTB/McGraw-Hill to Develop New Tests
The Georgia Department of Education chose publisher CTB/McGraw-Hill to develop new tests for students in grades K-12.
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The new testing system will replace Georgia’s Criterion Referenced Competency Test for grades 3-8 and will include new end-of-course tests for high school students. The tests will be aligned to the Common Core state standards. Students will also need to get a higher number of questions right in order to pass.
Georgia needed to find a new assessment after withdrawing from a national testing consortium last September.
State officials have opted to grant CTB/McGraw-Hill a five-year contract worth more than $107 million.
The deal isn’t final yet. Vendors who lost out on the contract can protest the decision during a 10-day window.
Officials with the Department of Education can’t comment on the contract before then.
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