Persuasive Essay On Standardized Testing In Schools

School is a place for learning where every student should be given equal opportunity to accomplish their academic goals and succeed later in life. Without external pressures and test scores there would be more funding for schools, students would enjoy learning more, and spend more time on learning at student 's pace and their individual needs. Students feel that, they should succeed on standardized tests to succeed in the future at school, but this is a major misconception. Recently numerous colleges are focusing less on SAT and ACT scores and more on teacher recommendation. Across the world, students come and go to and from school, memorizing information, and later using it on tests. However, the American schools consistently find themselves caught in the middle of the spectrum in worldwide studies that line countries up from the most proficient in terms of schooling to the least. So why does the U.S. consistently find themselves average compared to other countries, and what could the teachers and school systems improve to help every student learn at their best?
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But in Korea, the goal is for the teacher to lead the class as a community, and for peer relationships to develop. In American preschools, the focus for teachers is on developing individual relationships with students, and intervening regularly in peer relationships. This doesn’t prepare children as well for the real-world community. “I think it is clear there are better and worse way to educate our children,” says Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way. “At the same time, if I had to choose between an average U.S. education and an average Korean education for my own kid, I would choose, very reluctantly, the Korean model. The reality is, in the modern world the kid is going to have to know how to learn, how to work hard and how to persist after failure. The Korean model teaches