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Download full textTeale, William H. – Texas Reading Report, 1989
Standardized tests represent one way of obtaining assessment information. Yet in recent years educators and the public have voiced concerns about an overriding emphasis on tests and test scores. Pressure to "teach to the test" means that not enough time is spent on higher order thinking and literacy skills because minimal competencies…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Emergent Literacy, Minimum Competency Testing
