{"id":4036,"date":"2015-02-27T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2015-02-27T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:09:52","slug":"is-teaching-to-the-test-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4036","title":{"rendered":"Is Teaching To The Test Still Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teach to the test&#8230;a guaranteed way to achieve student success for almost any assessment, particularly the Virginia SOL&#8230;sound familiar? It should.\u00a0\u00a0This practice predates the SOL and other forms of standardized testing such as\u00a0the SAT.\u00a0While it is not the proven end-all for testing success, this practice just will not go away.<\/p>\n<p>A recent blog in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Education Week,<\/span>\u00a0 &#8220;Teaching to the Test Is Not Teaching&#8221; written by Peter Greene offers another view of this practice. Take a few moments to read his blog\u00a0 and see if what he has written still sounds familiar in your school division or your building.<\/p>\n<p>You may access the blog at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/view-from-the-cheap-seats\/2015\/02\/teaching_to_the_test_is_not_te.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3\">http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/view-from-the-cheap-seats\/2015\/02\/teaching_to_the_test_is_not_te.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teach to the test&#8230;a guaranteed way to achieve student success for almost any assessment, particularly the Virginia SOL&#8230;sound familiar? It should.\u00a0\u00a0This practice predates the SOL and other forms of standardized testing such as\u00a0the SAT.\u00a0While it is not the proven end-all for testing success, this practice just will not go away. A recent blog in Education &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4036\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[391],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-teaching-to-the-test","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}