Education Week – Catherine Gewertz
“For 20 kindergartners at Parr’s Ridge Elementary School, the morning is packed with singing and dancing, playing an alphabet game with sticks, and cutting big oval shapes out of paper. And while these are typical classroom activities, many also double as something else: parts of an assessment…What’s happening here reflects a national surge of interest in better sizing up and serving children as they enter the K-12 school system.” (more)