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With Georgia's increased focus on secondary school redesign, it is a good time to remind school communities about the Governor's Cup Challenge. Governor Perdue has renewed this friendly competition for the fifth consecutive year to raise SAT scores across the state. Rules The Governor's Cup Challenge is organized by Georgia High school Association (GHSA) class and region assignments to allow schools to be compared against similarly sized schools within the same region of the state. The GHSA divides schools into five classes (i.e. A, AA, AAA, AAAA, and AAAAA) with each class having eight regions. The Governor's Cup Challenge calculates average three-year gains made by schools on their most recent SAT in both the critical reading and math sections. Three years worth of scores are used to promote on-going improvement in student performance on the SAT. Within each GHSA region of each class, the school that has the greatest average gain in the most recent total SAT score for critical reading plus math over the previous three years will be selected as a regional winner. This qualifies 40 schools (5 classes x 8 regions) as regional winners. Furthermore, regional winners of each class will then be compared against one another by their average SAT gains to determine five class winners. Awards For the past four years, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS) has sponsored the Governor's Cup competition. TBS has made awards to both region and class winners, and most recently, to top scorers within each GHSA class:
The Governor's Cup Challenge continues as one effort to impel schools to implement strategies that will improve reading comprehension, writing ability, and mathematical problem solving thereby helping students perform better on the SAT. The Governor's Office of Student Achievement hopes all schools will rise to this challenge. |
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