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Reply to "S/O - should MCPS bring back final exams for each semester?"
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[quote=Anonymous]too much testing - the original claim So they eliminated final exams. As an educator, I worry about the emphasis on skills over content. Social studies is now all about skills, as it's become another reading class. I say this as an ELA teacher who PREFERS to teach concepts through author's style. Students should be familiar with an author's body of work. But we are told that teaching excerpts is equally as effective. What's the result? Kids don't know how to study. So when they hit the finals in college, where they are responsible for a semester's worth of CONTENT, they suffer. We are NOW in a system that still offers final exams. My HS daughter has to study. She has to memorize information before she applies it and eventually analyzes it. MCPS is a hot mess. [/quote]
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