Teaching to the Test

The State Tests Are Over (Should It Be for Good?)

Cory Zacker | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Teaching to the Test, Public School, Math Exam, Tutoring, ELA Exam, State Tests, No Child Left Behind, Education News

Yes, there has to be accountability, but at what cost? Students are spending valuable classroom time doing test prep for months. It's time for this to change and everyone knows it.

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For One Indiana School, Standardized Testing Is A Literary Genre

Posted 05.13.2012

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On the lesson plan for one Indiana school's students: historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction and ... standardized testing. In his January State of ...

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Obama State of the Union Message on Outsourcing a Positive Signal for Public Schools

Randy Turner | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Education News, Arne Duncan, Poverty, Teaching to the Test, Public Education, Class Warfare, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Education News

The 22 years I spent as a reporter before entering the teaching field left me with a healthy skepticism for any words escaping the lips of politicians. That being said, I was encouraged by Obama's speech.

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Thank You Mrs. Pinter: Did Your Child Have A Life-Changing Teacher?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.24.2012

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Who are the Mrs. Gradys, and Mrs. Pinters and Mrs. Hillkers and Mrs. Dilleys in your life? In your child's? Has our educational system gotten so "teach to the test" oriented that there is no space for a life-changing teacher today?

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Rules and Tools for Choosing Schools

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: School Recess, School Choice, Phonics, Teaching to the Test, Good Teachers, K-12 Education, KIPP Schools, Books News

The time is now, right now, to find -- or found -- good schools that will serve the next generation of Americans as engines of opportunity in an intensely competitive information age.

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With Testing, Where Do We Go From Here?

John Merrow | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Learning Matters, Teacher Evaluations, Education, Pbs Newshour, Standardized Tests, John Merrow, Education Reform, Evaluations, Testing, Teaching to the Test, Education News

Tests drive public education right now. But what should be driving the enterprise are agreed-upon goals that come from the real world. Where do we go from here? That's up to us, isn't it?

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The Dark Side of Acing the Tests

Steve Nelson | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: High-Stakes Testing, Education Reform, Student Achievement, Jerome Bruner, Race to Nowhere, Race to the Top, Creativity, Teaching to the Test, Standardized Testing, Sats, Education News

If rewards are conditioned on giving "right" answers, children will indeed work hard to figure out what the adult will accept as the "right" answer.

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Few Students 'Proficient' In U.S. History

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.14.2011

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If you can identify one advantage American troops held over the British in the American Revolution, chances are you know more U.S. history than most e...

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Educating for Democracy: How to Educate, not Just Test

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

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I would like to present several examples in which good teaching and, more important, good learning can take place without emphasizing testing.

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Education Reform's Problem is Identifying the Problem

Julie Woestehoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The problem with the education "reform" movement is that its solutions are cooked up by people who don't really have a clue what the real problems are.

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Race to Nowhere: The Case Against Homework

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Sara Bennett, Teaching to the Test, Vicki Abeles, The Case Against Homework, Dr. Oz, Oprah, Nancy Kalish, Jessica Congdon, Race to Nowhere, Impact News

Since the 'No Child Left Behind' policy has brought about a culture of teaching to the test, the students rising through our education system are learning how to be memorizers, not critical thinkers.

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