No child left to move ahead
Several years ago, when I taught Advanced Placement U.S. history, I had a student who grossly underperformed during the school year, yet somehow managed to score a 5 on the AP exam. When I asked him how he managed to accomplish this feat, he said, "I spent two weeks straight studying, reading, and reviewing, and that's all I needed." Full Story »
Posted by Kristin Gorski
Our testing culture has it all backwards. Instead of testing at the end of the year to see what has been learned, we should be testing at the beginning of the year to see what needs to be learned. Right now, we waste 2=3 weeks and weekend to prepare our students for the perforce test, and academic time is lost to teach the test.