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DUBAI: As a young boy, Michael never sat still. He never closed his mouth. He was always jumping around. “He’s a boy,” his mum Debbie Phelps said. Fast forward to 2016. At the Rio Olympic Games, Michael Phelps, now age 31, won his 23rd Olympic gold. His astounding swimming record made him the most decorated Olympian of all time. It did not come easy. At preschool, teachers complained: Michael couldn’t stay quiet, wouldn’t sit at circle time, didn’t keep his hands to himself, was giggling and laughing and nudging kids for attention. At age 9, in fifth grade, given his lack of focus...

Hundreds of thousands of California students this spring will not be taking the state’s annual Smarter Balanced standardized tests, an EdSource survey of the state’s largest districts shows. The Smarter Balanced tests are aligned with the Common Core state standards for English language arts and math and are required by state and federal law each spring. Federal education officials in February told states that they must measure student progress this year, after waiving testing requirements in spring 2020 when Covid-19 caused school closures across the country. Now, as California lags behi...

Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year? With so little time in school buildings, districts are looking to opt out and scale back. But at what cost? By Julia Silverman 4/13/2021 at 5:38pm Schools around Oregon are grappling with standardized testing in a pandemic school year. Next week, thousands of middle and high schoolers around the Portland metro area will return to school buildings for the first time since March of 2020, after Gov. Kate Brown ordered that every public school district in the state needed to provide some face-to-face time with teachers before the end of th...

With glitches and students opting out, how useful will STAAR be in identifying COVID-19 learning loss? Texas schools need accurate data to diagnose student learning loss A recent STAAR test booklet for seventh-grade math.( / Texas Education Agency) Education leaders are desperate to quantify how much the COVID-19 pandemic has hampered students’ learning, saying that’s a key step in figuring out how to catch kids up. They hope the STAAR test gives them an idea. But the student data stemming from this pandemic year will come with several caveats, namely because thousands of students won�...