Karen Gordon teaches her first kindergarten class of the school year over Zoom from her empty classroom at Northwood Elementary School in Anchorage on Aug. 25, 2020.
“When we’ve talked with schools and teachers, they said that first graders came in this year almost at the same place the kindergartners did,” said Dianne Orr, director of K-12 English language arts in the teaching and learning department at the school district. “I think they’ve done a yeoman’s job at bringing this group along,” Akes said. “But we’ve been really putting a lot of emphasis on — are they moving forward? And if not, what do we need to do?”
Kids who aren’t reading by the time they finish third grade are four times more likely to drop out of school by high school, he said.
sit down and read with your kid every night and they will not have this problem. A lot of this skill starts at home.
It was very depressing year watching my son work through kindergarten after the pandemic pretty much took him out of pre-K. Many kids are not meeting their scores and categorized as high risk. We overcame the challenge but what a system.
And they lived to tell about it.
I taught my five year old grandson how to read.
It would be great if ASD could spend more money on teachers so we could have a lower teacher to student ratio. There is plenty of evidence to show that small class sizes bring in big gains for students
This article misses several critical points. These students were surviving a pandemic. Staying home saved lives and bought time. We knew nothing about nothing about this novel virus and had no vaccines or therapeutics. We still don't understand long covid.