Field trips in the age of high-stakes tests.

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Field trips in the age of high-stakes tests.

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Are high stakes tests used as an excuse for avoiding the extra labor of enriching curriculum with trips that will have more long-term impact on students than a week of standard lessons?
After years of teaching astronomy, I finally took my students out with a telescope I had all along but never took to school. I regret not doing it the first year I could.
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