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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh, so the mere fact of comparing anything is a problem. Your diagnosis is asinine.[/quote]

You didn't answer my previous set of questions so I am assuming that you support the yearly standardized testing that is mandated by NCLB.

My diagnosis is spot on.  I have watched the teaching corps deteriorate as the new teachers do not know how to "not teach to the test".  When you don't have tenure and nobody rewards you for being creative and you are  only rewarded for getting the test scores, what do you think happens?

Sadly, I have been in this business for decades and have watched it all up close and personal.  Have you?

You don't have to believe me, but the truth will out (it already has actually, but some people have to have their head banged against the wall more than a few times to get it).

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If you are telling me that the teaching corps doesn't know anything other than to teach to the test then you are admitting that they don't know how to teach, period.  And that's something that's at the root of many of our problems in teaching - that education schools and our system really isn't doing a good job in preparing teachers.  A good teacher would be able to work with standards and provide robust content without having to teach to the test.  A good teacher doesn't need rewards in order to be creative.  A good teacher doesn't have to teach to the test, that teacher will get the results if the content, curriculum and delivery is solid.

What you are saying is also once again telling me that administrators don't know what they are doing, and that's the even bigger part of the problem.

Basically there is a huge amount of dysfunction in our educational system - and getting rid of testing and standards really isn't going to fix any of that. [/quote]

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