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School teaches standardized testing as literary genre

On the lesson plan for one Indiana school’s students: historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction and … standardized testing, the Huffington Post reports. In his January State of the Union address, President Barack Obama laid out a number of goals to improve education for the country’s youth. Among those objectives: to teach with creativity and stop teaching to the test. So one Indiana K-9 charter school is taking both to heart — by adding standardized testing to its curriculum as a literary genre. Instead of teaching students to memorize and master every subject or concept that appears on the statewide tests [1], The Project School in Bloomington, Ind. spent the preceding weeks on test preparation–teaching students test strategy and how to take the exam with a different approach…

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