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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Why is Winchester ‘testing’ out the literacy pilots?

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Your article of June 23rd disturbed me. Winchester teachers will “test” two different new literacy programs on Winchester students as part of their curriculum. Parents won’t be told if their child is part of one of the tests.

Why are new teaching programs being “tested” as part of the child’s one and only learning experience? What happens to the children who are part of an experimental program that fails the “test”? And why is this method for improving the educational system being experimented on at the level of an individual town?

Shouldn’t these activities related to experimenting and improving the curriculum be done at the level of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education? Seems like a very haphazard, risky and inefficient (in many ways) process, to have individual schools running experiments, with the children of the town as the test subjects.

 —  Christopher Noble, Winchester

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