Teaching to a different test

Miki Litmanovitz

For years now, a war has been brewing between two sides of the education world.

One side argues that standardized tests are necessary to evaluate teacher performance, and the other argues that these tests are an inadequate measure of the hard work that teachers pour into their classrooms.

With the recent release of the movie "Waiting for 'Superman,' " that war has spilled out of the classrooms and into the mainstream. And at the heart of this war is the commonly heard argument that standardized tests cause teachers to "teach to the test."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 1, 2010 1:02 AM
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