"Teaching reading used to be fun. We worked on expression and on interacting with the book through connections that the children made with the text. This year, as I finished yet another fluency benchmark, a young lady of seven years of age beamed at me as as she finished and asked, 'Did I read fast enough this time?' and was unable to tell me anything of what she read.

"In the past few years, it seems as if I am doing less and less teaching and more and more testing. We do not expect each toddler to begin walking at the same age, nor do we expect each toddler to speak at the same age, why then should we expect students to learn at the same rate?"

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