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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Should 3- and 4-year-old have spelling tests?
There’s been some blogosphere buzz about a Washington Post series that recently kicked off, called The Rise of the Testing Culture. (Alexander Russo rips the series here, while Jim Horn praises it here.)
In this week’s Carnival of Education, a weekly collection of the best in education blogging, Matt Johnson looks at one part of the piece, the story of how younger and younger kids are facing standardized tests.
I’ve seen some of these test, and they’re not pretty.
Go here for detailed examples of what pre-school standardized test are really like.
It’s inevitable that as public funding is pushed toward pre-school children, accountability will seek to follow. The younger a child is, the less reliable a standardized test can be.
BTW, my review of the book Building Blocks is included in this week’s carnival.
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