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The Test: ‘Read-or-Flunk’ Law Looms over Michigan Third-Graders

DATE: October 23, 2019

Tara Olar’s fingers flit across a stack of manila folders in her empty classroom at Mayville Elementary School. Her third-grade students are down the hall in the school’s computer lab taking a test that measures their reading ability ‒ their third reading test in their first month of class. Two weeks earlier, the same students had taken a different reading evaluation conducted by a district instructor who works with low-income children.

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Most images of students and teachers on site are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action

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