Had a conversation this week about the difficulty in focusing on important concepts in lessons, specifically the idea that what might actually be important might not be what will be on that impending standardized test. A school board memeber in Florida took that state’s standardized test, and the results might not be particularly surprising, but I hope they are at least eye-opening…
“I have a wide circle of friends in various professions. Since taking the test, I’ve detailed its contents as best I can to many of them, particularly the math section, which does more than its share of shoving students in our system out of school and on to the street. Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession.”
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