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A Plan to Test the City’s Youngest Pupils

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 182, Clicks: 14) View Story

The Bloomberg administration, which has made accountability the watchword of its overhaul of public education, is asking elementary school principals across the city to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergartners.

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#1 by nitajo posted ago

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“We’ll be going in as critical consumers and we will be making, I think, thoughtful decisions about what’s going to be best for the children in our school,” Dr. Pepe said. “Working in a very targeted way with children based upon assessment information can really have very positive results, if it’s not used to shackle instruction but it’s used to enrich the learning opportunities.”

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#2 by saras posted ago

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Why give tests if they are not used to drive instruction? Most of the standardized tests are more for the legislators mandating them rather than the teachers. Teachers assess their students daily in all subjects and then adjust their teaching to make all students successful or as some say "leave no child behind". We've been doing this for years!

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