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Ranking children before they even set a foot in the classroom?
This article from the New York Times discusses an admissions test that is currently in use in many areas for acceptance into kindergarten.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/nyregion/21testprep.html?ref=us
I disagree completely with this practice. Too often kindergarten is seen as the beginning step for a life-time of standards-based, quantitative, one-best-way approaches to learning. Children develop at such unique stages and come from such differing backgrounds. How can we possibly measure their "preparedness" for kindergarten with a tool? Why would we even want to? Isn't the individuality (strengths AND needs) of children what makes for rich and diverse experiences in the classroom?
That's ridiculous!
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