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is a problem that sometime feels there is no simple solution. Researcher shows that having the involvement of special education parents demonstrate an improvement in the outcomes for special education students (Thatcher, 2012). According to No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001), “Local educational agency may receive funds under this part only if such agency implements programs, activities, and procedures for the involvement of parents in programs…

Standardized testing is often regarded as a tool used to assess a child’s intelligence level. It gives the teachers a glimpse of the inside of a young student’s mind and what they understand as far as an individual subject goes. However, both of these points are common misconceptions as far as standardized testing goes. In fact, it is extremely unfair and is not accurate at all, the test subjects students to a useless and ultimately harmful test for no reason at all. It is inaccurate in the…

g the first years of the NCLB Act I was of early elementary age, therefore I’ve never really developed an opinion about it. I was just too young to pay care about why I had to take the WASL. It made no difference to me. Although, once I reached high school age I do remember my teachers being very against standardized testing. They told us that standardized testing doesn’t fairly evaluate our knowledge, they only evaluate what we can put on paper. Again, I didn’t question it. The fact that…

We pay for our children to learn and become our future innovators or critical thinkers. Aren't we tired of paying for something that provides no educational value outside of a statistical database? Aren't you, the students, sick and tired of taking a test that really has no point towards improving your life skills? Standardized testing only undermines your educational opportunities: by wasting valuable learning time and answering random questions, only so you can earn a point towards…

using standardized tests because of government interference and the tests being rigid and inflexible. The most obvious issues of standardized testing in America can be attributed to two government acts: Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind. Passed in 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act holds schools accountable through yearly math and reading tests. If schools were to repeatedly fail, they would be shut down. Likewise the Race to the Top program encourages schools nationwide to compete with…

Students who are poor test takers because of nerves may not be able to show what they are actually capable of for the test simply because they are not good test takers. Since some students are not good test takers, they almost need the perfect environment to take standardized tests. Testing conditions such as a room's lighting being too dark or too light, too cold or too hot, the color of the walls, the types of chairs in the room, and the type of desk being used for the test could all be big…

Title IX, an educational law signed in 1972, was a law designed for the federal school system to prevent discrimination based on gender (justice.gov). At the beginning of the 21st century, this law is back in the spotlight in America today. The controversy now is much different than it was back in the 1970’s. In May of 2016 President Obama ordered all school systems to respect the bathroom choices of transgender students in the U.S. The administration used the threat of losing federal funds…

standardized tests, which are an attempt by the education system to evaluate each student’s knowledge of “key” subjects such as mathematics and reading, and were first introduced at the close of the first World War. However, with the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, students fall prey to extreme stress and anxiety, as well as a narrowing of the curriculum with a sole focus on standardized test subjects. Standardized testing also inflates the achievement gap between middle to…

Standardized tests according to Pearson, one of the leading education companies in charge of administering standardized tests for students from third to eighth grade, are a means to understanding what exactly is takes place in a classroom. This entails "why a child might be struggling, succeeding, or accelerating on specific elements of their grade-level standards” (O’Malley). The great controversy of the matter is that proponents of standardized testing argue that standardized tests are fair…

How would you feel if you went to school for four years too specialize in a the field of profession in which you want to work and then somebody who has never done your job tries to tell you tell you how to do it? Pretty annoying right? Then you get punished for not doing well with something when it's not what you were taught to do; that is what happening to a bunch of our teachers in this country due to the common core standards movement. The common core standards movement has become the…