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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with you about math facts, though I think some of that is an assessment problem - we no longer have a curriculum designed to help kids do fast arithmetic in their heads, and yet this is still something that most of our standardized tests push them on. The goal is to make sure that kids understand concepts well enough to wield calculators effectively when they’re older; the problem is that it bores the crap out of the more proficient ones and heightens the gap between kids who receive tutoring and kids who don’t.

As for ELA: I’m all for Science of Reading, my kids were at a Calkins district that also supplemented with enough phonics to not make it a complete disaster but they still struggle with spelling and decoding, but I think the other big problem - and it’s still ongoing - is that reading has become this tidy compartmentalized thing now; we de-emphasize the whole class reading a book and give everyone their own perfectly calibrated book, we do endless reading comprehension practice on synthetic little passages… we’ve made reading bland and corporate and taken all of the messy fun out of it. (Which is why so many kids don’t read anymore) If you’ve got kids choosing books out of a little bin with a reading level indicator on it then you’ve screwed up badly.[/quote]

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