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Originally posted by Moses
There is absolutely nothing wrong with "teaching to the test". If you are not measuring real learning, that just means you need a better test.
Freeform, no standards learning is a disaster. Look, our public schools are assigned a pretty simple task. Teach literacy, mathematics and the sciences. Learning in all of these areas is easily measured by testing. Testing provides accountability, something that has been sorely lacking in public schools.
I'm thrilled when our public school teachers teach my kids with testing in mind. At least they are learning something useful and measurable instead of spending their days building "self-esteem" and "social consciousness".
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Thats why my son could fail a class but as long as he tested well he could get no further help from the school.
I went to school in NY and we took a test called the NY state Regents exam if you were in a regents level class.
We were not taught the test, we were taught the curriculam and passing the test was easy.
I get you point Moses, model the test after the curriculam and then you will not have to teach it.
But once again we are back to the fact that this is a government run system and its typcal of every other level of government. You want them to actually do something that makes sense?