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Tracy O'Connell Novick

Mar 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

#WorcSchools folks, if you have been among those concerned (to put it mildly) about the district’s continued use of Fountas and Pinnell, please note that is on Tuesday’s TLSS subcommittee agenda. The meeting is at 4.

The agenda is here.

worcesterschools.org/wp-content/upl…

The administration’s response starts on page 14.

It opens like this:

@EdReports

The @EdReports evaluation can be found here: edreports.org/reports/overvi…

I will save my remarks for deliberation, but I will observe that, as EdReports does review the evidence basis of the curriculum they review, it would seem that this statement is not the case: “does not purport to assess if a program is either effective or evidence based”

I do strongly recommend reading the EdReports piece.

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