State schools Superintendent Kathy Cox attributed the 70-80 percent of sixth- and seventh-graders who failed the social studies portion of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests this year on the state's curriculum not matching the exams. She threw the scores out and promised to fix the problem.
A committee of educators and experts combed through the curriculum this summer and suggested changes. The new curriculum narrows what students learn in sixth- and seventh-grade and eliminates redundancy in the material
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