Sentences with phrase «grade inappropriateness»

«I know there is some age and grade inappropriateness,» said Republican Sen. Jerry Tillman at a legislative meeting earlier this year.

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But support began to wane when critics from all sides of the political spectrum began to emerge with concerns on a variety of fronts, including problems with the content of the standards and the developmental inappropriateness of those for the earliest grades, the design of the new tests, how the new exams were written and by whom, and the federal government's funding of new standardized tests aligned to the Core.

Genuinely alarmed by the fact that the curriculum of the higher grades was increasingly being «shoved down» to the kindergarten and first grades, despite its inappropriateness for the developmental tasks of most 5 and 6 year olds, in recent years early childhood educators fought back.