A warning about "Early Warning!"
Posted on Ed Week website, May 19
Comment on: Analysis Ties 4th Grade Reading Failure to Poverty
S Krashen
The Annie Casey Foundation report, Early Warning!, contains no new information, and recommends that we continue even more aggressively along the same path outlined by the Obama-Duncan administration, ignoring the most obvious solution to low reading achievement for children of poverty: Actual access to books and other reading material.
Standards and tests as a cure for poverty?
The report repeats previous descriptions of the impact of poverty but only briefly mentions that we must provide resources, focusing far more on the need to institute standardized measures, with "consistent, aligned
Comment on: Analysis Ties 4th Grade Reading Failure to Poverty
S Krashen
The Annie Casey Foundation report, Early Warning!, contains no new information, and recommends that we continue even more aggressively along the same path outlined by the Obama-Duncan administration, ignoring the most obvious solution to low reading achievement for children of poverty: Actual access to books and other reading material.
Standards and tests as a cure for poverty?
The report repeats previous descriptions of the impact of poverty but only briefly mentions that we must provide resources, focusing far more on the need to institute standardized measures, with "consistent, aligned