Have We Drifted Away From Informed Child-Development Practices? // EdWeek | Educational Psychology & Emerging Technologies: Critical Perspectives and Updates | Scoop.it

"Child development is not part of the reform agenda. Yet, at the local level it is our daily reality.  In some schools, assessments on computers to capture and measure understanding, information, and skills begins as early as Kindergarten. The accountability frenzy has trumped not only common sense, but years of child development research and theory. "
- Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers
Full post at: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2013/10/have_we_drifted_away_from_informed_child_development_practices.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW&nbsp