Monday, April 28, 2008

State senator drops plan to flunk third-graders who can't read



"Hudsonville Superintendent Roxanne DeWeerd said ......
'Early intervention makes sense, but I'd be surprised if there are districts not already doing that. It's a common practice,' DeWeerd said. 'Teachers check for progress along the way. We don't wait for the MEAP scores to tell us there's a problem.'"


So we "graduate" illiterate third graders to the next grade (where they don't teach 3rd grade reading anymore)?


And we can be assured that "educators" are right on the problem and "don't wait for MEAP scores" to fix the problem.


Yeah, right.

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