American Education System Problem

There was an American education system problem that started in 1965. This problem was that the schools in the United States were no longer competing against schools internationally, which during the time put the government in charge of keeping the schools on track and accountable. Which resulted in poor test scores. The No Child Left behind act was then was signed it as a law in 2002. This act attempted to improve performance of the many groups of students that usually fall behind in class by increasing accountability in the schools (Klein). This required that students had to test students from grades 3-8 in reading and math every year to make sure children were improving and learning. There was a great amount of testing that was involved …show more content…
I would ask myself who in their right mind thinks that an impoverished school should have the same expectations as a wealth school. Not all of the children that I work with on Tuesday’s have breakfast in the morning. They don’t all know where their next meal is coming from. This past week I overheard a girl in the office that didn’t know where to go after school because her single mom wasn’t going to be home for a few hours. I don’t think that girl would even think about studying hard for a math or reading test. She would be more focused on her mother and waiting for her to arrive. As great as the NCLB act sounds it just didn’t work. While reading the article Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform by David C. Berliner he showed graphs about how the poverty rate in the US have been increasing from 1975 to 2002 alone the rate went up 5% while test scores went down and this is sad. Children are having poor test scores due to poverty but the tests can’t tell you about the child and whether they had a meal in the last day or not. Testing shouldn’t be a one-size fits all model. We all learn differently and come from different