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[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]

[b]I think we might have gone to the same law school[/b]  :lol:

But I agree. If you really don't want your child's school to ever "teach to the test", you should send your child to a school that does not administer standardized tests. Go find a private Montessori or Waldorf school, they will not test your kid and they will not teach them with that test in mind.

All public schools are required to do standardized testing to evaluate the school itself, and many also use it to identify children you need to be accelerated or offered more challenging material, or to help compose learning groups. If you send your child to public school, they will "teach to the test." Some will do it well and some will do it poorly. If your kid attends public school and you are critical of another school for "teaching to the test", unlike your child's school, this is mostly an indication that you don't understand very much about your child's school curriculum.[/quote]

Was Prof a state Supreme Court litigation expert who taught 3rd year seminar?  [/quote]

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