Neighbors and folks with school aged kids:
Did you know that there is a new test on scheduled for next year that will replace the T.A.K.S. or Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test?
The S.T.A.A.R. test or The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness is the replacement for the TAKS test.
This test is rumored to be much harder. NEISD has a very good website explaining the kinds of questions to expect and the SAISD website has a very good site explaining what your child has to attain in order to graduate any public school.
On my blog, I let my 2nd grade parents know that last year's summer vacation and this year's summer will be very different: (quoting my blog here:)
In the past when summer would arrive we kids, parents and teachers would take a big collective sigh and literally leave school behind until it was time to start again.
Reading, math, and writing was left to the wayside till late August (Heck, when I was a student, I remember how funny a pencil felt after 2 1/2 months of not touching one.)
But this not the case anymore:
With the new STAAR test coming next school year, your child must be better prepared for an exam unlike any we have ever encountered.
This test starts at the "hardest" questions.
What we have been told, is that, "any student that achieved commended status on their last TAKS test would just be passing on this new STAAR test!"
So what do you do? Elementary school kids really need to hone the skills that they learned in school: Reading, math and writing should be practiced everyday but I would not make it a burden...
Google: 2nd grade Fierros and see what else I inform my parents....
