Ask a Teacher podcast: Do you teach to the test?

How Teachers Really Feel About Standardized Testing

How Teachers Really Feel About Standardized Testing

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With Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project.
May 29 2015 10:03 AM

Ask a Teacher: Do You Teach to the Test?

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Are standardized tests harming the integrity of teaching? That's the big issue in the latest episode of Ask a Teacher, Slate’s education podcast with the Teacher Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Do teachers actually teach to the test?

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In this episode, host Matt Collette is joined by:

  • Matt Dicks a fifth-grade teacher at Wolcott School in West Hartford, Connecticut. He’s also an author and storyteller. You can read his blog at www.matthewdicks.com
  • Valerie Lake, an eighth-grade English teacher and literacy coach at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School in New York.  
  • Zach Parker, who teaches history at an International Baccalaureate charter high school in Boise, Idaho. He was also featured in a recent post on Slate’s Schooled blog about a four-day school week.

This episode is sponsored by The Great Courses, offering more than 500 lecture series taught by top professors and experts, available in audio and video formats. Go to thegreatcourses.com/teacher for a special, limited-time offer.