how many K12 schools test students on math and reading when they enter, then place them in classes according to the level they’re at?
Sometimes they try. I’d love to learn they’ve gotten better over time, but it doesn’t seem so? When I was in 4th grade (in 1995) they put 5 PCs in every elementary school classroom in my district and made us all spend ~4 hrs/wk doing math and reading programs that quizzed us and advanced based on the results. By midyear it started giving me 5th grade math… and my teacher didn’t know how to do 5th grade arithmetic problems. When I reached the end of the reading program, I had to wait a month for the school to get me an account on the next level reading program… and the following year they reset me to the beginning of it again.
Remember ‘what is good for GM is good for America’? We’re really doing this?
We always seem to forget that sometimes ‘what is good for GM’ is a good swift kick in the @$$.
Sometimes they try. I’d love to learn they’ve gotten better over time, but it doesn’t seem so? When I was in 4th grade (in 1995) they put 5 PCs in every elementary school classroom in my district and made us all spend ~4 hrs/wk doing math and reading programs that quizzed us and advanced based on the results. By midyear it started giving me 5th grade math… and my teacher didn’t know how to do 5th grade arithmetic problems. When I reached the end of the reading program, I had to wait a month for the school to get me an account on the next level reading program… and the following year they reset me to the beginning of it again.
We always seem to forget that sometimes ‘what is good for GM’ is a good swift kick in the @$$.