During her State of the District address in front of a packed ballroom at the Omni hotel, Dallas schools superintendent Stephanie Elizalde made a bold statement: Teaching for the sake of preparing students to take a standardized state test is “officially dead.”
“The test will take care of itself if joy is in the classroom with on grade-level materials,” she said. “We don’t need to do drill and kill to prepare for a state assessment.”
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