How can a one-minute kindergarten test help teachers tackle the ‘COVID slide’?
Thousands of Texas students were missing from pre-K and kindergarten classrooms because of the pandemic. Quick assessments can help teachers get them on track.
Kindergarten teacher Michelle Davis gives a fist bump to Angelique Luciano, 6, after administering a quick literacy diagnostic test to her at F.P. Caillet Elementary in Dallas on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. These bimonthly, quick diagnostic assessments give her the info she needs to plot out how to get her students on track amid the pandemic. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
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Editor s note: This is the first of a two-part series on dyslexia and how Winchester parents view the school district s handling of the issue.
Tom Gannon’s daughter, who was identified with dyslexia, receives reading intervention from the Winchester School District three times per week for 30 minutes. Gannon said it’s not enough.
“The programs they use are not aligned with the recommendations (of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education),” he said. “So they re not actually intervening or providing instruction according to the program requirements or with fidelity.”
To air their grievances toward the district, a group of Winchester parents which has been advocating for change to early literacy in Winchester Public Schools over the past few months created United for Literacy – Winchester. The group, which includes Gannon, has about 70 parents supporting their children who are struggling with dyslexia, a learning disorder involving di
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Growing anger against Biden administration’s mandate for standardized tests during pandemic
Last month, President Biden’s Acting Assistant Education Secretary Ian Rosenblum sent a letter to state education administrators instructing them that standardized tests had to be administered to students in some form this spring, summer or fall.
Rosenblum whose previous job was executive director of the Education Trust-New York, a pro-standardized testing and pro-business organization said states could delay the tests but they could not be canceled like last spring and they have to be conducted as soon as possible. The spring testing window for state tests, including the PSAT and SAT, typically given to high school juniors and seniors preparing for college, has already started in the United States.