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Falmouth schools report above‑norm I‑Ready results, shift focus to 'stretch growth'
Summary
District presenters told the school committee that Falmouth students outperformed state and national I‑Ready norms on spring diagnostics but emphasized a new focus on 'stretch growth'—the additional progress students must make to close learning gaps.
Karen Carson and Erin Castagio presented the Falmouth Public Schools’ end‑of‑year literacy and mathematics assessment results, telling the school committee that the district’s I‑Ready diagnostics show performance above state and national norms but that closing remaining gaps requires higher “stretch growth.”
The presentation outlined multiple measures: district I‑Ready placement distributions, subgroup growth for English learners and students with disabilities, and K–3 foundational screening via mClass. “Our median annual typical growth is a 122%,” Karen Carson told the committee, citing the…
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