Standardized Testing Argument Essay

North Carolina’s standardized testing system has recently been under fire from parents, students, and even education leaders. Many locals feel this testing is placing undue pressure on students and teachers. A recent study found that twenty-five percent of a school year is spent preparing for and taking standardized tests (Kamenetz). A local parent, Eric Malone, expressed his concern by saying “The quality of education has dropped because this system only sees students as a number”. The current system is only interested with an improvement of test scores, not an increase in learning within the classroom, yet little is being done to cause change within the testing system. A 2013 study showed that higher standardized testing scores rarely correlates to more understanding of the subject within a student (Kamenetz). These tests are only focused on the visual and auditory learner, while ignoring the tactical and kinesthetic one. Students who do not learn or show skills in an auditory or visual way are made to feel subpar. A famous quote from Albert Einstein has been used to back this …show more content…
Yet, nationwide we are still primarily testing math and english. Of course, there is nothing wrong with ensuring that children understand subjects including math and English, but we are causing students that excel in other areas to doubt themselves because the testing system tells them that if these tests cannot be passed successfully a successful life is not possible. This is not the mindset that we should be passing down to the next generation. The U.S. is in need of a change, we need those creative, critical thinking minds to help us solve the issues the country is being faced with. Yet, we still continue to force out students into identical molds, instead of allowing them to grow as individual