"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> writes: >The goal seems to be better test takers rather than more literate >citizens. That is a theme I'm seeing in a lot of online conversations these days.An awful lot.
However... there may yet be hope. We have perhaps seen the first robisn heralding the end of a very, very long winter; both Arne Duncan and President Obama have been caught on tape calling for less focus on testing and an improvement to assessment instruments which would involve teachers. <pauses, administers smelling salts to much of the group, takes breath and continues> Perhaps genuinely good news on the NCLB reform front for once?! At least, it is in my opinion, anyway. Feel free to differ! :-) > >Well, here's to tomorrow's snow day!:) Another foot on the way... Ah, yes, speaking of winter... I hate to say it, but I'm quite jealous. Being a boarding school, Stoneleigh-Burnham doesn't do snow days, but it's still pretty and festive when we get that much snow, and I miss it. Anyway, enjoy it, Karen (and others of you out there). Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
