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This Week In Education: The Dubious Benefits Of 'Teaching To The Test'

    From This Week in Education:

    “I think it’s fair enough to blame President Obama to the extent that his policies promote ineffective instruction. At the same time, though, the phrase ‘teaching to the test’ masks a lot of variability in what educators are actually doing to improve their scores, and it’s not always obvious that when schools ‘teach to the test’ they’re helping themselves at all.”

    Read more at: scholasticadministrator.typepad.com

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