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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: More Fallout from the Testing Explosion
If an article has the word "test" in it and also talks about questionable educational practice, FairTest will claim that the tests are the cause. In fact, the article does not claim that the teaching nonsense around fluency is solely or even largely due to testing. In any event, this article makes makes educators look ridiculous. Someone says it's important for kids to read fast and all of a sudden all common sense goes out the window? There's more to it than that. Art In a message dated 10/26/2006 7:17:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes: IN QUEST FOR SPEED, BOOKS ARE LOST ON CHILDREN Washington Post -- October 24, 2006 by Valerie Strauss Your fourth-grader is galloping through Lois Lowry's utopian novel "The Giver," and you marvel at her reading speed. Stop marveling. Most likely she has little idea what the book actually means. In many classrooms around the country, teachers are emphasizing, and periodically testing, students' reading fluency, the current buzzword in reading instruction
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