Informative and Persuasive: “U.S Schools are too focused on standardized tests, poll says”
In Lynsey Layton’s The Washington Post article, “U.S Schools are too focused on standardized tests, poll says” posted in August 2015, she discusses how the public have centered their attention on standardized testing rather than the credentials of the teachers individually. The context of this article is over publicizing standardizing testing, all while putting standardizing in the spotlight all of the other factors have been disregarded. Due to No Child Left Behind, the government has more control over our children education, we as the people face penalties due to “scores” our children make on the this test. Schools shouldn’t be judged based on a scores of a test, factors that should be taken into consideration are location of the school, teacher credentials and student work effort. Who are we to judge an entire school based on a scores? …show more content…
In forgotten neighborhoods, schools lack the necessities to create an effective learning environment. Without an effective learning environment students begin to lose interest, and are no longer engaged which later results in a lack of confidence. In high poverty neighborhoods this is reality. Without the necessities to educate, how are our children expected to pass standardized tests? The horrifying result remains, the school as a union will score poorly and will face the conciseness such as receiving little to any funding. As if living in a poverty stricken community and attending an over looked school isn’t enough, the children are punished, robed of an education, and failed by a foundation that was created to ensure they aren’t left
In Lynsey Layton’s The Washington Post article, “U.S Schools are too focused on standardized tests, poll says” posted in August 2015, she discusses how the public have centered their attention on standardized testing rather than the credentials of the teachers individually. The context of this article is over publicizing standardizing testing, all while putting standardizing in the spotlight all of the other factors have been disregarded. Due to No Child Left Behind, the government has more control over our children education, we as the people face penalties due to “scores” our children make on the this test. Schools shouldn’t be judged based on a scores of a test, factors that should be taken into consideration are location of the school, teacher credentials and student work effort. Who are we to judge an entire school based on a scores? …show more content…
In forgotten neighborhoods, schools lack the necessities to create an effective learning environment. Without an effective learning environment students begin to lose interest, and are no longer engaged which later results in a lack of confidence. In high poverty neighborhoods this is reality. Without the necessities to educate, how are our children expected to pass standardized tests? The horrifying result remains, the school as a union will score poorly and will face the conciseness such as receiving little to any funding. As if living in a poverty stricken community and attending an over looked school isn’t enough, the children are punished, robed of an education, and failed by a foundation that was created to ensure they aren’t left