[CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study

[ladewig]

What about the students who move and change school more than once a year? I
frequently add "new patrons" to my library database only to have the student
checkout once and then move on. I've already had some for whom I've made a
(laminated) library card and they moved on before using it even once! My
sister-in-law (a 3rd grade teacher) had a student who told her on her first
day in her class that she had been at her last school exactly 48 days. Why
would a student even think to count or remember that unless moving was a
very frequent occurrence? By the way, that was her first AND last day with
my sister-in-law. :-(  That student was on to the next school the very next
day. It seems to me that if a student moves that frequently, there ought to
be a notification to the county or state and the family needs a social
worker, or someone to help them find and maintain a permanent residence, at
least for the remainder of the school year.

 

Joanne Ladewig  (A.K.A. "Library Lady")

Library Media Tech

Lawrence Elementary, GGUSD

Garden Grove, California

shatz at verizon.net

 

Comments are my own and may not represent the views of GGUSD

 

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu
[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Lesley Farmer
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:59 AM
To: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study

 

Children left behind before school starts
Four major factors driving students' standardized test performance aren't
even within schools' control, according to a new study. Simply by knowing
the percentage of students who were often absent, raised by a single parent,
not read to daily or watched five or more hours of TV daily, researchers
were able to predict each state's results on a federal test with "impressive
accuracy." The states that scored lowest tended to be those that had the
highest percentages of children who met each of the four criteria.
Educational Testing Service. (2007). The Family: America's Smallest School.
Princeton, NJ: Author.
www.ets.org/familyreport 

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