Why 1/5 Americans can't Find the US on a Map: Miss South Carolina Reveals All

Teaching to the Test needs to include practice with oral answers, as well as filling in paper and pencil bubble sheets.

And, math, geography and current events should be a part of every teaching to the Test session.

Other Teaching to the Test should include practical skills, such as reading a map.

Recent Geography Polls

Recent polls indicate that 1/5 of Americans can't locate the US on a map.

This demonstrates Teaching to the Test at it's worst.

No Joke

No, this is not a "blond Joke."

Listen to Miss South Carolina's response to this statement.

Miss South Carolina's Answer to Flagging US Geography Skills…

And, listen to the applause.

How well do you think that Miss South Carolina answered the question? What university does she attend? Is she legally blond?

Positive Spin

On the positive side, 4/5 Americans were able to find the US on the map. This gives our schools and our Teaching to the Test a "B" which isn't so bad.

Of course, we can do better, and our Teaching to the Test efforts might pay off with better publicity for the success of our school systems.

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Teaching to the Test requires Written Content

Teaching to the Test requires written content as fuel to keep the engines of your students' curiosity and excitement going. But, do you have time to write all this Teaching to the Test content yourself?

Maybe you do, or maybe you don't. But, wouldn't your time be better spent interacting with your students in guiding and coaching them in building test sophistication? One thing is sure, Teaching to the Test is an interpersonal skill, not just a pencil and paper exercise.

What if you could find lots of free electronic resources, eBooks, to drive your Teaching to the Test?

Well, you can.

Besides the well known Project Gutenberg, there are lots of great sources of electronic content on the Web.

And, one thing about Project Gutenberg is that lots of the materials are "classics." This means that the books are old, out of copyright.

But, here is another source for modern, highly applicable to daily life content to support your Teaching to the Test efforts.

The site is Free EBooks. But, don't buy all the "for sale" books when you can get over 1,000 eBooks for free.

But, there is a catch. You will have to create a link to their site from your site.

However, that is no big deal because you can do the same by creating a free Blogger Blog, like this one. Set up is easy to do. All you need is a Google Account.

You add a new page component, make that component HTML, and paste in the code that you received from Free eBooks.

Then, you return to the Free eBooks site, give them your Blogger Site address (URL).

Finally, download the list of eBooks. You can download all the books at once (a 30 MB file), or you can download them individually.

The quality of these free eBooks ranges from average to poor, but, you can use them in your Teaching to the Test for either adding them to a test creation template, or, by using them as the basis for Teaching to the Test writing classes and editorial conferences.

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