Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much ...
In Teaching TO the Test vs. Teaching the Test, I wrote that there’s nothing wrong with teaching to a test in terms of content, as long as that test is aligned to appropriate, rigorous curriculum. Yet ...