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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC attends a upper NW school that does not use text books. I may be an old fart ( 40ish) but I don't remember getting so many hand-outs when I was in school, during the stone ages. She is in 3rd grade and was given a packet to do over the Holidays. The math homework is pretty much a review from the last couple of months. It would help me , if I could refer to chapters that she has gone over already.Also, it seems that,  all everyone is concerned about is the DC-CAS test.
Is this the norm for 3rd grade to 12th grade?[/quote]

To answer your question, yes this is typical of DCPS now. 3rd-12th grades are DC-Cas testing grades and since teachers jobs rely so heavily on their students' success on this test many teachers teach to the test, while writing their own curriculum based on the standards. Yes, it sounds like a hot-mess, because it is a hot-mess.[/quote]

And they wonder why scores are not improving through out the city. Teaching to the test have been long debated. I have tutored kids on the Southside. It is extremely difficult fumbling through hand-out after hand-out to find out what my kids are learning week to week. Books are so important. They give kids and parents a reference point. It is a gateway to children learning independently. One of the major issues with DC-CAS is the math word problems. The kids can do fluency in +,-,x and ( I can't find the division key on this laptop) very well. But breaking down word problems so they can just visualize the numerical problem is more difficult. Students definitely need text books in elementary school. By the time, they enter middle school, they are overwhelmed doing multiple chapters for homework.[/quote]

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