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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP who flipped out about the Iready curriculum - I really thought they were trying to replace the whole curriculum with Iready- some districts in the country have!  If it is just an intervention, I would be concerned that what the intervention kids need is actually more experience with concrete materials not a computer screen to make math more engaging and more easily understood, BUT as my kid is fine and no one in the county would listen to me anyway- I
ll be quiet and not run in a panic to Redfin.  Thanks for the clarification- and yes sadly, I mean this seriously.

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My understanding is they just use it as an assessment.  Kids who need an intervention based on the assessment results have a range of recommendations--not iready.  So no need to panic.  As an assessment it's not bad--we've gotten my daughter's results and I thought they were informative. The problem is it's fairly time-consuming.  But actually, running through a lot fundamental problems is really good for solidifying learning, so in some ways it's better to have this periodically than classroom instruction.   Kids learn quite a lot through doing assessments--sometimes more than sitting through classroom instruction where there are a lot of distractions etc.  I don't think of test-taking on foundational material as lost time.  I think it's way better than having a teacher individually administer DRA because then there really is a lot of lost time while the other kids are getting tested.  Students have work to do but it's generally not as intensive as taking a test.[/quote]

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