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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
As long as the government is evaluating schools and teachers on test scores--and that is the plan--schools will be training kids to pass tests rather than educating them. It's the "fear" factor.

Then that's a failing of that particular school, not of testing.[b] If you teach the kids with a solid curriculum that also happens to meet the learning objectives laid out in the test[/b] then you don't need to teach to the test. The test isn't asking kids to learn anything weird, obscure or non-relevant.[/quote]

Your premise assumes that the students are at a level where you can use the curriculum.  A "solid curriculum" would be one that is relevant to the students in the school.  That may not be the curriculum that has been adopted from "on high" (which could be the one that is called Common Core).

The teacher will be forced to use the adopted curriculum if no other curriculum has been adopted.  The curriculum that isn't "solid" for them.  If they don't, they will be told that their students failed because they did not prepare them for the test.  If they do use it, they might have a chance by "gaming" the test preparation.

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"the students are at a level where you can use the curriculum" - again, you need to look at the big picture.  When you have kids showing up in middle school who can barely read or add 2+2 that means there was a problem in elementary school.   Your answer then is apparently "the middle school curriculum is wrong because it's not relevant to the level that the kids are at" essentially ignoring the real problem.  Your solution is to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.[/quote]

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