Time for testing!

The writing TAKS test is on Wednesday; we had our last writing practice tutorial today, so two more school days and then it's test time. The students have to write a composition as well as pass a multiple-choice grammar/revising section.

I'm pretty sure the kids this year will do better than last year's. Last year I saw 11 of my 22 pass the writing test; this year I have 20 taking the test in English and 1 in Spanish. They won't do any worse than last year, and my hope is 14-15 of the 20 will pass. It's hard to get higher than that with some of them. I can't devote all my class time to writing, since they still need reading and math to stay on pace for those tests (which are at the end of April).

Stanford results (from January) should be back soon. I'm hoping guardedly for better results than last year, but who really knows?