{"id":522,"date":"2016-10-17T23:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/?p=522"},"modified":"2016-10-17T23:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:49:03","slug":"teaching-to-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/10\/teaching-to-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching to Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the unhappy day ever comes when teachers point their students toward these newer examinations, and the present weak and restricted procedures get a grip on education, then we may look for the inevitable distortion of education in the terms of tests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Carl Brigham, creator of the SAT recanting his invention, and arguing against its advancement.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2e0FJsQ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy<\/em><\/a>, by Nicholas Lemann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the unhappy day ever comes when teachers point their students toward these newer examinations, and the present weak and restricted procedures get a grip on education, then we may look for the inevitable distortion of education in the terms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/10\/teaching-to-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,179],"tags":[180,177,181],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-classical-education","category-education","tag-carl-brigham","tag-clt","tag-standardized-testing","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}