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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SOLs in science are weird because they aren't regular. For subjects where the SOLs are yearly they drive curriculum by design. Teaching to the test is another way of saying teaching the class so that students master the material that the state has decided that they should master in a given year [/quote]

Why are they LIMITING curriculum to teaching to the test? The SOL should be minimum standards, not set boundaries on what they will learn?[/quote]

The curriculum is so bloated that it’s virtually impossible to teach all the standards well in a year. [/quote]

But we skip science?! So we can make room for… what?[/quote]

Science is not skipped. But if you are a third or fourth grade teacher who is judged on math and reading SOL scores, you’re going to put all of your energy behind that. Having science SOL tests only in 5th and 8th causes those grades to have to bear the brunt of science instruction. [/quote]

This. And for 4th grade social studies teachers, the same reality applies.

Here’s a fun factoid: VA school districts have the option of spreading out Virginia studies (which is 400+ years of history) over two years in fourth and fifth. APS and some other districts opt to do it in one.[/quote]

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