Some good news
No, Scoop hasn't gotten a good deal on car insurance. Our education team reports:
Guilford County Schools recently received some good news, although somewhat belated, about student academic performance.
The state Department of Public Instruction released results of the 2002-03 eighth-grade Computer Skills Exam this week. Eighty-five percent of Guilford County students passed the exam, compared to 80 percent state-wide.
In order to pass the test, students must answer multiple-choice questions and demonstrate that they can use a computer to perform certain tasks, such as look up information in a database.
Local students also outperformed their peers in the state’s other urban districts, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Wake County (Raleigh), Durham, Cumberland County (Fayetteville) and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.
State officials hope to release 2003-04 results in January.
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