Testing, Teaching, and Learning: A Guide for States and School Districts
Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged students—state and local administrators and classroom teachers.State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students.
Little Friends is a course for very young children who do not read or write. It develops vocabulary, introduces phonics, and teaches numbers. Testing done
Little Friends is the starter level for First Friends but can be used on its own as a one-level course.
