"Why I Will Not Teach to the Test" Kelly Gallagher/Education Week 11/12/10
Gallagher authored a superb manifesto for better reading instruction in middle and high school, the fabulous Readacide. In this opinion piece, he questions the value of overlong lists of standards, and I'm down with it. We need to ask what the purpose of teaching content is. If your answer is that it is to help students absorb and then deal with the content by developing critical thinking skills, it only makes sense that we don't overload them with content. Depth is better than breadth. The trouble is that it is much harder to measure depth with a multiple choice test.
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