Summary: The Case Against Standardized Testing

Education today has sparked many controversial discussions about Standardized testing. Parents, educators, law makers, and even children are stressing the effects that Standardized testing is having on children, teachers, and sometimes even parents in today’s schools. Standardized testing measures the students’ knowledge of what they have learned in school. Some people wonder why schools take Standardized testing, while other schools think it has helped them in a lot of ways. I think that Standardized testing is not as important as some people think. People giving and making Standardized test need to take into consideration that the scores they are getting may not be as accurate as they think. Weather you believe it is a good thing or a bad thing though …show more content…
"The Case against Standardized Testing - Harvard Political Review." Harvard Political Review. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.) The article also stats that one student couldn’t handle the stress and actually broke down in the middle of a test. (Mulholland, Quinn. "The Case against Standardized Testing - Harvard Political Review." Harvard Political Review. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.) I personally think that this is too much test taking especially for students in 5th grade. That statement from the article gives an example of how much stress and time these tests are taking in schools and the toll its taking on children, especially young children. We want our children and students to excel in school and want to be there, but yet we are making them take all these test that are stressing them out and making some students lose purpose when it comes to school. The teacher Dawn Neely-Randall is an example of a teacher who finally saw what testing was doing to students and this is why she finally had to start speaking