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Updated: 9:55 AM Jan 25, 2012
Va. Senate Votes to Scale Back 3rd-grade SOL Tests
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) The Senate has passed legislation to scale back Standards of Learning testing for third-graders.
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January 24, 2012
The Senate has passed legislation to scale back Standards of Learning testing for third-graders.
Democratic Sen. John Miller's bill would require testing only for math and English SOLs in the third grade. Miller said Tuesday that the change is intended to allow educators to focus on improving third-grade reading scores.
Republican Sen. Mark Obenshain of Harrisonburg said something should be done to improve reading performance, but ending the science and history testing is the wrong approach.
The Senate voted 33-7 to pass the bill, which now goes to the House of Delegates.
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Posted by: Jeanne
Location: Charlottesville
on Jan 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Thank goodness....finally some common sense! Emphasis on teaching which also allows time for teachers to have a chance to create plans that match the Class of the Year that they have. The test upon test upon test has been beyond ridiculous! I had the joy of teaching with one standardized test at the end of the year to measure the growth of my students within that year's time. Our goal...the goal of my students and of mine...was to try to beat their score from the year before and to show at least a year's growth within the given year. From August/September to Spring of the following year I created many styles of tests to expose the students to different ways of thinking and they rose to the challenge and had wind below their wings at the end of the year when it was their turn to either leave me or to spend another year with me... to build on the growth of that year and to start in the following year where they left off in May/June. I was allowed to teach and my students learned.
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