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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a professor in law school who asked the seminar "what does it mean to call someone an 'activist judge'?" After watching us all fumble it he said, "It means a judge who made a ruling you don't agree with."

"Teaching to the test" is a fall back for parents who want to discount good test scores at another school and/or dismiss less good scores at their own school.[/quote]

I am a teacher and agree 100% All the scrappy teachers in my school have low test scores. They always cry, "I don't teach to a test."

I have excellent scores because I teach the standards with rigor and critical thinking.  I use academic language all the time.

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Please stop using the word rigor... its gross[/quote]

Why is it gross? Let me guess, you want the work dumbed down. That is one of the main problems in education. Many teaches teach to the bottom. We need to teach students to think critically and apply their skills. That is rigor.[/quote]

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