What Helps Children Read

WHAT HELPS CHILDREN READ
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(16, November 2010)
What Helps Children Read.
Introduction
National Education Assessment program has been operational in United States since 1969. This periodic activity assesses what public and private schools and can do in various curriculums like reading, science, mathematics, U.S history and in geography. This assessment plays a role in measuring the student achievement and is used by policy makers, state and local educators, principles, teachers and parents to inform educational administration. NAEP compares performance among states, public and private schools and student`s demographic groups. (Pellegrino Et al. 2001). The US department of education sponsors it.
Private schools are better than public schools as private school usually have a more rigorous academic reputation hence students tend to read more and widely hence improving both their academic and general knowledge. In addition, private schools have smaller class sizes and this means that each student gets more individual attention from their teachers improving their academic performance.
I don`t think Standardized tests like NAEP are valid ways to measure academic achievement because its results tend to biased in more than one way (External influence from adults, inter-state student variation and political agendas). Such influences makes the education administration to make wrong decisions that eventually tremendously affects the quality of students graduating from schools every year.
I don`t advocate fo...