In the United States, people come from all over the world to live the “American Dream” and get a good education. However, in recent years the United States’ education system has been under fire for its questionable grading and testing system. In this essay, I briefly will go over the questionable testing system in Texas and the integrity of the grading system in the United States. I will also go over multiculturalism and the strict curriculum teachers are faced with today.
The Three Most Important Aspects In Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino Youth, Linda McNeil challenges the idea that the state of Texas is improving the overall quality of education, and states that it is actually “driving significant …show more content…
165). Kohn states that grading encourages an “emphasis on quantitative aspects of leaning,” which depresses creativity and “fosters fear of failure” (Canestrari & Marlowe, 2012, p. 168). I believe this is the most important aspect of this chapter because grades do not reflect if students are learning. Kohn states that the best evidence we have of whether students are learning “…comes from observing student’s behavior rather than from test scores or grades” (Canestrari & Marlowe, 2012, p. …show more content…
57). There are so many flaws in the Texas testing system, so I do not understand why it is the model for the entire nation (McNeil, 2005, p. 57). The Texas testing system has contributed to massive dropouts and does not really teach the students anything, so I believe that the nation should not follow Texas’ example. In the short article Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism from The New Teacher’s Book, Bill Bigelow talks about how “fixed standards violates the very essence of multiculturalism” and talks about how we need to include “the histories and experiences of people who have been left out of the curriculum” (Burant, 2010, p. 170). Bigelow states that “curriculum standardization is a way to silence dissident voices” (Burant, 2010, p. 170). After I read this, I started thinking to myself, “Why?” I do not understand why they purposefully leave people from different cultures out of the curriculum. I believe that we should learn about all the different kinds of cultures from all over the world in
The Three Most Important Aspects In Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino Youth, Linda McNeil challenges the idea that the state of Texas is improving the overall quality of education, and states that it is actually “driving significant …show more content…
165). Kohn states that grading encourages an “emphasis on quantitative aspects of leaning,” which depresses creativity and “fosters fear of failure” (Canestrari & Marlowe, 2012, p. 168). I believe this is the most important aspect of this chapter because grades do not reflect if students are learning. Kohn states that the best evidence we have of whether students are learning “…comes from observing student’s behavior rather than from test scores or grades” (Canestrari & Marlowe, 2012, p. …show more content…
57). There are so many flaws in the Texas testing system, so I do not understand why it is the model for the entire nation (McNeil, 2005, p. 57). The Texas testing system has contributed to massive dropouts and does not really teach the students anything, so I believe that the nation should not follow Texas’ example. In the short article Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism from The New Teacher’s Book, Bill Bigelow talks about how “fixed standards violates the very essence of multiculturalism” and talks about how we need to include “the histories and experiences of people who have been left out of the curriculum” (Burant, 2010, p. 170). Bigelow states that “curriculum standardization is a way to silence dissident voices” (Burant, 2010, p. 170). After I read this, I started thinking to myself, “Why?” I do not understand why they purposefully leave people from different cultures out of the curriculum. I believe that we should learn about all the different kinds of cultures from all over the world in