(NOT the Official) DIBELS Clearinghouse

NOTE: This article is scheuled for publication in the Albuquerque Journal for Oct. 10, 2006.

Dr. Rick Meyer, PhD Reading Professor, UNM
Dr. Kyle Shanton, Reading Professor, NMSU
Dr. Priscilla Gutierrez, Outreach Specialist
New Mexico School for the Deaf
Dr. Anne Calhoon, Reading Professor, UNM

The recently released Inspector General report regarding Reading First
programs (one of the central components of No Child Left Behind,
specifically directed at struggling readers) indicates favoritism,
mismanagement and widespread corruption are operating at the highest levels

You can buy T-shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags, and other items inscribed with DIBELS nonsense words.

Click on the attachment below and you will see the test.

Question from a parent:

I have a child in Kindergarten. Today my son's teacher sent home note asking parents to practice the 60 nonsense words on the list with their child and that a new list will be sent home every 2 weeks until May when the children will be tested again. The note said that they are practice the list twice daily in school.

This is what confuses me, when I called the DOE (Department of Education) they told me that DIBELS is a testing system and is not instructional material. The person at DOE also went on to say that DIBELS should not be taught by a list. I then called my child's school and they told me some teachers use a list to help prepare the students for the testing. The school also told me that if I want to help my child to exceed benchmark I should make reviewing the list a priority.

Comment: It is important to note that parents are speaking out against putting their young children on adult timetables.

By Mark Wright (Submitted: 04/25/2005)

Daycare from about 3 weeks of age on, Then Pre School for a year, then Kindergarten, then 1st grade etc.

Parents of course supposedly no longer have enough time to even feed their Children a hot breakfast before School anymore...so even breakfast is now in school.

And some kids bring Homework? home from kindergarten...Just how sick are the USA adults?!

Perhaps the only thing wrong with todays's youth...is and was NO real parents..the govt takes care of it all.

"DIBELS is so flawed and weak a test that, without the coercion being applied for its use by the No Child Left Behind Act enforcers in Washington, it would never pass review for adoption for the uses being made of it on any level by competent reviewers. "

—Kenneth Goodman, Education Week, 9/12/05