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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the talk of Lucy Calkins / Units of Study, can we also talk about the shocking lack of content in schools?  Our very highly rated elementary school seems to teach almost no science, geography, history, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, ...[/quote]

I think it was my 4th year of teaching in Fairfax County when the VA SOLs were rolled out, and students were actually going to be tested on mastery of basic knowledge of facts in Science and Social Studies, including geography, civics and economics.   It was incredible!   We were expected to teach students all sorts of facts and skills in the content area; not just how to read and do math.   It was hard, but these kids LEARNED.

I taught ESL students, and the changed benefitted them greatly.   Yes, it was hard to learn more content and be tested on it and no they didn't always pass their tests.  But their reading comprehension in non fiction text increased significantly because they had so much more background knowledge.

It's been many years since I left VA and I know that they do still have SOLs but I think they have changed.[/quote]

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