No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, high-stakes testing, Common Core, and other bad school reform measures are coming together with Covid-19 to destroy the futures of America’s youngest learners!
They include the same equity and disparity talk used to ramp up the above harmful policies. Those changes to schools, all that rigor talk, did not work before, and they’ll not work to fix pandemic losses.
What child is going to welcome learning, look forward to going to school, some for the first time, when they hear about how far behind they’ve already fallen?
When parents read dire reports they will feel compelled to push their kindergartners and early learners harder. They’ll worry about the next test. Children will see learning as something to fear not a joyful experience.
Last November we saw Dallas Students Suffer ‘Horrifying’ Learning Loss During Pandemic, New Data Suggests. Such hyperbole is harmful.
Dallas doesn’t stop with the November report. Now we learn Dallas Trustees CONTINUE READING: Kindergarten Learning Loss Message Is HORRIFYING for Children!