>>26906903"Accelerated reading" sounds about right... or at least, the resulting acronym does. I remember my school going absolutely apeshit over "AR tests" and "AR points" around elementary and middle school, where in Language Arts class you'd get prizes for getting so many AR points per week.
And by AR testing I mean you read a book with a specific color code matching your reading level (say, if you were "college level" you'd be reading 'white dot' books), and after you read them you'd log onto a database with what eventually turned out to be the last four digits of your social security number, and you'd take a short ten-question multiple-choice test on what happened in the book.
And the thing was, they had AR tests from everything from
>>26906834 to those Warrior cat books to... fuck, I dunno, Sesame Street. Anything in the fiction section of the school library was fair game, so if you were a bookworm you'd rake in the AR points- and thus, the prizes from Language Arts, which looking back on it ranged from candy to, at best, more books.
I think they still did it in high school, but I'm not sure. I know the books still had the dots on the spines, though. Then again, that's when I made the switch from bookworm to internet-trawling nerd, so that might be impacting my memory.
