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Serena Beckett tells Raleigh County board curriculum and testing are hurting students
Summary
At a regular board meeting, resident and former teacher Serena Beckett urged the Raleigh County Schools board to prioritize developmentally appropriate instruction and criticized heavy emphasis on testing and multiple math methods, warning those trends harm student confidence and risk driving people from public education.
Serena Beckett, a Raleigh County resident who identified herself as a former county teacher, used the public comment period to call for a return to ‘‘student and learning based’’ instruction and to criticize what she described as an overemphasis on testing and curriculum design.
Beckett told the board that classrooms have ‘‘veered off the track of being student and learning based to being data and curriculum driven,’’ and said lower-grade lessons are sometimes pushing…
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