In Sara Mead’s “Don’t Forget the Early Education Years” she discusses how grades Kindergarten through second are often times forgotten about. Kindergarten-second grade are important years in a child’s education because this is the time children are learning the most and learning quickly. Mead says, “Research shows that average annual learning gains for children in grades K-2 grade are dramatically greater than those for subsequent years of school.” (Mead) Even though K-2 doesn’t get standardized tested; teachers, faculty, cities, and states should start to pay more attention to these grades because it could potentially help children later in life.
Standardized testing is a test in which all students are given the same question or a question