Summary: Behind The Bubble

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Behind the Bubble

A study from Massachusetts schooling reported that 50% of 10th-grade students flunked the state math test, 40% of eighth graders failed the science portion, 66% of fourth graders were classified as “needs improvement” . Also according to an organization known as NeaToday 67% of American parents believe that there is too much “emphasis” on the unfavorable Standardized Testing and along with that 66% of American parents oppose test scores evaluating or being used to evaluate teachers performance. Not only this but it has been brought up to attention that in Chicago in order to “stay tough” or to receive higher grades on these they fired the entire staff team and hired new educators in order for students to achieve a higher
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According to Ujifusa, Andrew. “Standardized Testing Costs States $1.7 Billion a Year, Study Says.”Education Week, Education Week, 1 Mar. 2018, that it costs some states around $1.7 Billion annually as in overall. I believe this is just a large sum of money we are wasting increasing our US total debt which is at a whopping $69 million and we only are making worse. I believe there is another solution to achieving student growth. For example student portfolio (continue …show more content…
Although this should be accurate I still if the data ought to match up we surely would have more well-rounded off kids for college because little by little are being exploited to the mandatory that you must you cohere to at college, but for this test that pedagogues spend so much time making the extra curriculums simulating while at the meantime the NCLB the “No Child Left Behind” Act has narrowed down the curriculum on education shrinking the careers children could possibly take down the road. A study in the year 2007 has announced that since 2001, 44% of school districts had reduced the time spent on science, social studies and the arts by an average of 145 minutes per week. Focusing on courses such as reading and math according to "Survey Finds Teaching to the

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