One Unintended Consequence of Giving Public Schools Incentives for Their

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Essay

One unintended consequence of giving public schools incentives for their students to do well on standardized tests is that it may lead to "teaching to the test" at the expense of teaching subjects that are not tested.If the standardized exams given by the state test reading comprehension and mathematics,would you expect these teaching distortions to be the same at the elementary and high school level? Explain.

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