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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I remember book reports and research projects in elementary school.  I even remember having to memorize the Emmancipation Proclamation and recite it in front of our class.  When I told my kid about that they were stunned. I’m very disappointed.[/quote]

Book reports and research projects ok. Memorizing the emancipation proclamation sounds like a hilarious waste of time.[/quote]

I think reciting something important in front of your class is great for public speaking.  [/quote]

It's also good for learning to memorize, learning how to use your attention and memory.  Memorizing a poem, a speech, a song - all valuable and all no-longer-required.[/quote]

Because this is a huge time suck of instructional time; but, more importantly,[b] it’s not on a standardized test, thus not deemed important[/b].[/quote]

NCLB lingers on, decades later.[/quote]
Virginia's SOLs were established in 1995, predating NCLB.[/quote]

Yes, standardized tests predated NCLB.  But teaching to the test, spending weeks or longer on SOL prep, dropping subjects that aren't on the SOLs, those are all caused by NCLB.  The difference between when we went to school and our children's experience is due, in large part, to NCLB.[/quote]
Focus on testing increased post-NCLB as you note. However, many of the posters in this thread are pointing to changes in pedagogy as to why their experiences were different from their children's' experiences. Many reform pedagogies undermine content learning. Reformers seek to cloak this erosion in content knowledge by shifting away from standardized tests to local performance assessments that are more subjective and less content-focused. Standardized tests are critical in benchmarking content knowledge and acting as a rampart against content dilution. [/quote]

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