Alief ISD’s Elementary and Secondary Language Arts staff break down the complex issues surrounding literacy in the state and how the state of Texas is using an assessment that is not grade-level appropriate to penalize students, educators and schools.
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This story was orginally published by The Houston Chronicle, and can be found here. Alief ISD...
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MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristin Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books,...
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Texas Monthly published a story — “Are Texas Kids Failing? Or Are the Tests Rigged?” — which raises questions about whether questions on the state’s high-stakes standardized English Language Arts tests are written above grade level for many children.
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Leading educators and testing experts have studied the exams and find that they are asking kids to understand passages aimed two or more years above their grade level.
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