Efforts to improve Effingham County students’ writing skills have paid off with higher scores on Georgia’s Eighth-Grade Writing Assessment, school officials reported last week. Effingham eighth-graders took the writing assessment in January, and this year’s county scores exceeded last year’s across the board. Students also scored comparably to the state averages and exceeded the scores for the First District Regional Education Service Agency (RESA), which serves Effingham and 17 other counties.
Eighth-grade writing scores on the rise
