Ignorance is Strength

One of the major problems that many educators have with standardized testing is that fact that for a certain period of time in their class, what they are teaching is all about the test. It doesn’t matter if a teacher is in the middle of an amazing string of lessons or teaching and lecturing on [...]

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Hello again,
I am responding to an article posted on edweek.org. It’s not so much a scholarly article as much as it is a Q and A among teachers. There are two guests one a reporter, who is also an author or a book on standardized testing, and a third grade teacher. I found this article [...]

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Hello world,
As many of you know I am blogging for my ENG 310 class. As a member of the class I am supposed to pick a specific issued related to teaching writing that matters to me. After much consideration I have decided to write about standardized testing, more specifically it’s affect on teaching writing.
I have [...]

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