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How can a one-minute kindergarten test help teachers tackle the ‘COVID slide’?
Thousands of Texas students were missing from pre-K and kindergarten classrooms because of the pandemic. Quick assessments can help teachers get them on track.
Kindergarten teacher Michelle Davis gives a fist bump to Angelique Luciano, 6, after administering a quick literacy diagnostic test to her at F.P. Caillet Elementary in Dallas on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. These bimonthly, quick diagnostic assessments give her the info she needs to plot out how to get her students on track amid the pandemic. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)