
Learning from Florida: 3rd grade reading mandates don’t work
This post reruns a 2017 post by our former colleague Pat Cooney entitled the Problem with 3rd grade reading mandates. In it Pat lays out
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This post reruns a 2017 post by our former colleague Pat Cooney entitled the Problem with 3rd grade reading mandates. In it Pat lays out

Test scores have become the sole fixation of our education system. At least since the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, states, districts,

Over the past few years, the question of whether 3rd graders can read, and what we should do about it, has dominated education discussions, not
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