Less than half of Fort Worth students can read at grade level, district reveals
Fort Worth ISD is moving forward with a new strategic plan aimed at improving lackluster reading scores. Here are its 4 main priorities.
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important to note this is an ISD school, meaning it operates independently from the public school system or government
I know you dont have school age kids, but its actually very much normal about 60+% of children in the elementary age in USA and Canada are "behind on grade level"
My kiddo is one of them,my mom saved all my school work and i can see theres a large difference in what they expected from us back in the day to now, they except children to have a much higher reading level than prior years in the last whatever 30 some years,
My kid can read pretty well for a 8 year old he stumbles sometimes on harder longer words, and when he does hes marked "behind on grade level" if he tries the word 2-3 more times he usually gets pretty close but they dont allow for that wiggle room to learn the word,
A ton of these studies are also based off testing scores for educational system so they are tests you take that are specific to the state regulations they make a huge deal of them because testing scores for the government is how many schools get better funding, and often these tests cause alot of anxietyin kids because the teachers dont know anything about them in terms of whats on it, to prepare the kids for them, they cant help younger kids
and most elementary age students k-5 are pretty immature so having an hour long silent testing day also factors into how poorly they do because 6 year old kids have a hard time sitting still and being quiet.
to dig ina little deeper, thsi specific ISD in texas is home to children mostly of Hispanic race meaning they likely already speak 2 different languages, spanish and english and when you add reading and writing into those it can be harder on these kids because they know two languages,