Thursday, December 26, 2013
K-5 STILL WAITING!
Where is the decision on the K-5 Language Arts program? Students will be taking the tests without the books to support the curriculum? What is the hold-up? Politics? Manny Rivera, where is your decision? What is going on with the Board of Education? I thought a decision on a program for K-5 LA was a priority????
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The decision should have been made before the budget submission- there's going to be professional development money that's needed for all the training.
ReplyDeleteNPR SUNDAY EDITION QUOTE:
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1990s, a team of researchers decided to follow about 40 volunteer families — some poor, some middle class, some rich — during the first three years of their new children's lives. Every month, the researchers recorded an hour of sound from the families' homes. Later in the lab, the team listened back and painstakingly tallied up the total number of words spoken in each household.
What they found came to be known as the "word gap."
It turned out, by the age of 3, children born into low-income families heard roughly 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers.
Research since then has revealed that the "word gap" factors into a compounding achievement gap between the poor and the better-off in school and life. The "word gap" remains as wide today, and new research from Stanford University found an intellectual processing gap appearing as early as 18 months.'
THOSE IN NORWALK WHO LIVE IN POVERTY ARE ALREADY BEHIND IN LANGUAGE ARTS. THIS IS WHAT RESEARCH HAS PROVEN. SO WHY IS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WASTING EVEN MORE PRECIOUS TIME DECIDING ON A K-5 LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM? WHEN WILL BOARD MEMBERS MAKE A DECISION.