In April 2015, 179 teachers and administrators in an Atlanta school district were convicted of racketeering charges. Nine received sentences that include prison time. They were trying to help the students in their system that had been failing the state 's standardized test. The only way they knew how was to cheat. Standardized testing for students in all public American elementary schools and high schools needs to be reevaluated and rewritten to more accurately judge every student. Where the problem began was the passing of the no child left behind act of 2001. in it schools were required to held more accountable to certain standards to which the federal government thought was needed.Every year student education are interrupted to take one
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All students to a single standard, its easier to judge everyone to the same standard.
Sounds good on paper except every child absorbs different things, and may not even have same capacity to learn the same things. sometimes a family may be brand new to the school district, fresh from another country.
The district I attended in my highschool years was considered an "urban high school" meaning it had a huge population of immigrant students who had only a basic grasp of the english language. Which effects for then you would think when taking a standardized test.
James Popham discusses the issue in an article written in an 1999 issue of Educational leadership magazine that then Recent studies have proven then there are more than one form of intelligence, that all children are born with different gifts a child who may be better at speaking, than say mathematics, one of these is a quantifiable, testable ability the other is not.Using an question from a 6th grade about what is not fruit as an example, the correct answer is celery Bringing up another point. what if the child had never had access to celery. they wouldn 't know …show more content…
The reasons vary from telling the kids the correct answers, to looking at the tests before they are administered to the children. 2011 the La unified school district revoked the charter of 6 six school for letting the teachers see the tests before giving them to the students.(guzman-lopez)
This just proves that the stakes are far too high for some schools. if the teachers are willing to cheat for the students to make things better then the system is flawed to begin with.Because of funding or their jobs being on the line when in actuality the test they take are a poor judge of what the students are learning.Because every child learns things differently there is no such thing as a standard child.
Of course standardized testing is needed because how else will you determine if the kids are learning anything, But there needs to be some sort of reform.Kids in poorer schools are suffering because the tests are geared toward Schools populations who have more money and as stated have access to things that may actually be on the
All students to a single standard, its easier to judge everyone to the same standard.
Sounds good on paper except every child absorbs different things, and may not even have same capacity to learn the same things. sometimes a family may be brand new to the school district, fresh from another country.
The district I attended in my highschool years was considered an "urban high school" meaning it had a huge population of immigrant students who had only a basic grasp of the english language. Which effects for then you would think when taking a standardized test.
James Popham discusses the issue in an article written in an 1999 issue of Educational leadership magazine that then Recent studies have proven then there are more than one form of intelligence, that all children are born with different gifts a child who may be better at speaking, than say mathematics, one of these is a quantifiable, testable ability the other is not.Using an question from a 6th grade about what is not fruit as an example, the correct answer is celery Bringing up another point. what if the child had never had access to celery. they wouldn 't know …show more content…
The reasons vary from telling the kids the correct answers, to looking at the tests before they are administered to the children. 2011 the La unified school district revoked the charter of 6 six school for letting the teachers see the tests before giving them to the students.(guzman-lopez)
This just proves that the stakes are far too high for some schools. if the teachers are willing to cheat for the students to make things better then the system is flawed to begin with.Because of funding or their jobs being on the line when in actuality the test they take are a poor judge of what the students are learning.Because every child learns things differently there is no such thing as a standard child.
Of course standardized testing is needed because how else will you determine if the kids are learning anything, But there needs to be some sort of reform.Kids in poorer schools are suffering because the tests are geared toward Schools populations who have more money and as stated have access to things that may actually be on the