... subject such as, Standardized Minds by Peter Sacks or Alfie Kohn's The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools. Some of the adverse affects of testing can include: lowered expectations of student performance; negative attitudes toward low performing students; lowered self-esteem and expectations by students; inappropriate placement in special education and speech/therapy programs, ... subjects being tested" (Basterra, 1999). When we refer to Standard English, this is the language most widely accepted as the language of professional business (white-colo...

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... and promotes that the students will actually do the reading. The teacher also used Bloom's taxonomy (Omrod 521). He used the first three levels of abstraction: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application. The first level, knowledge, was done the evening before as the students read their books about their assigned ... students also learn how to summarize and pick out the main topic and important details. This is important for reading essays and articles. It helps the students get an idea of what is being talked about, and can increase reading speed (only have to read something one time) an...

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