A new literacy screening test has made its way into classrooms across elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School District, aiming to identify any reading challenges in some of the youngest students.
First- and second-grade students wrapped up their first testing window last week, nearly a month into the school year, with new software called mCLASS, designed to identify reading challenges, including dyslexia.
The software streamlines literacy testing in the district while delivering instant student test results and immediate analysis, offering teacher suggestions for course material and grouping together students with similar reading difficulties…