{"id":810,"date":"2014-07-08T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:15:41","slug":"newest-standardized-test-for-kindergarten-elite-schools-nymag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/newest-standardized-test-for-kindergarten-elite-schools-nymag\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Standardized Test for Kindergarten Elite Schools (NYMag)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIn the growing age of standardized testing, NYC elite private kindergartens are forgoing the 45-year standard, the IQ tests, for the &ldquo;Educational Records Bureau&#39;s brand-new Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners.&rdquo; This new standardized test will be administered on an iPad, cost $65, and has starting tutoring rates ranging between $140 and $200 a session. One of the elite schools, Horace Mann, explained the switch as &ldquo;ensur[ing] that every applicant for Kindergarten and First Grade at Horace Mann School has completed a standardized measure of reasoning and achievement that is psychometrically valid&hellip; [and the score report from this test] is the only piece of the application that is consistent and objective.&rdquo; But can any part of the four-year old mind truly be measured in terms of reasoning? How do you feel about the move made by this school? Click <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/07\/elite-kindergarten-test-4-year-olds-hard.html\">HERE <\/a>to read the full article.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Students-taking-a-test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Students-taking-a-test\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-811\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Students-taking-a-test.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the growing age of standardized testing, NYC elite private kindergartens are forgoing the 45-year standard, the IQ tests, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}