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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: Problems in Special Ed World: Reading Instruction and Other Things
Description: :n our current educational system, standardized tests are used to assess the quality of the student-products as they move along the 13-year conveyor belt within the education factories commonly referred to as schools. Students whose test scores fall below a certain percentile ranking are thought to have a disability. Additional standardized tests are then given by standardized testing experts to confirm and diagnose the cause of the disability. Very much like a disease, a “special” standardized treatment is then prescribed for this disability.These students are then sent off to Special Ed World. This is a purgatorial “specia...