High Stakes or Developmental Practice? Maybe Both

BEAUFORT County, South Carolina, knows the pinch that can occur when so-called developmentally appropriate practices meet statewide standards and high-stakes assessments. A leader in standards-based reform, the 15,000-student district has encouraged elementary school teachers to boost achievement by...

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Published inThe Education digest Vol. 65; no. 7; p. 11
Main Author Harrington-Lueker, Donna
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ann Arbor Education Digest 01.03.2000
Prakken Publications, Inc
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Accountability
Achievement Tests
Beginning Teachers
Benchmarking
Child Development
Classrooms
Curricula
Data Analysis
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Early childhood education
Educational Change
Educational evaluation
Elementary Education
Elementary School Teachers
Elementary Schools
Experiential Learning
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
High Stakes Tests
Individual Needs
Intermediate Grades
Kindergarten
Learning Readiness
Preschool Teachers
Reading Skills
Standardized Tests
Students
Teaching
Young Children
Oregon
Ohio
United States > US
Texas
South Carolina
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ISSN0013-127X
1949-0275

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Summary:BEAUFORT County, South Carolina, knows the pinch that can occur when so-called developmentally appropriate practices meet statewide standards and high-stakes assessments. A leader in standards-based reform, the 15,000-student district has encouraged elementary school teachers to boost achievement by trading ditto sheets and workbooks for performance assessments, multiage classrooms, and other approaches focusing on the link between child development and readiness to learn.
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ISSN:0013-127X
1949-0275