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Is common core a gateway to better education or a setback by several grade years? Common core has set us back, gradewise, several years. Common core promised a harder curriculum, and raising tests scores. Out of this we have seen no improvement. Our government thought, when compared to other nations, our education system was the lowest in scores. So, in order to fix the education system and bring up test scores they implemented a new educational standard, one that promised a harder curriculum…

Standardized Testing is Debilitating our Education System Standardized testing is the misdirected efforts to improve education in the United States. Though the intent is good, the vehicle by which politicians and administrators have instituted to raise standards is not only flawed in its conception, but a waste of precious time and money resources. No test has the capacity to stand supreme when it comes to accreditation of schools, allocation of federal funds, or determining the effectiveness…

The Not-Open-Ended Solution to Testing Bob takes a standardized test in a room with 30 other students. Everyone is silent, bubbling in answers for 3 hours straight. Bob is sitting at his own desk with a Scantron answer sheet and test booklet. He has prepared for this test an hour a day for the last few months. A month later, results come back and Bob finds out he failed. He becomes very stressed and begins to hate school because of testing. He skips school the next day. This could be the story…

Issue A month before his high school graduation, a student comes home with the bad news of not being able to receive his diploma. You would think that it’s because of his grades or attendance at school. The real issue was that he did not pass one of his standardized tests. These tests are also known as “high stakes” because they determine whether or not the student is eligible for a diploma or a promotion to the next grade. How would you feel if you knew that taking tests is one of your…

In studies shown as of today, high school education is presently becoming useless as the years go by, too many students get by. In high schools now students take their education and teachers as jokes; that is to blame on the teachers and higher up staff in the schools because if they were harder on students and not as lenient as they are students would take their high school education serious and not try to get by. High school education needs to be more complex to prepare young adults for the…

Although there is an exuberant amount of research disproving that standardized tests are trustworthy and reliable, there are still people who stand behind it for multiple reasons. One reason as to why there are people and colleges who heavily trust the results of these scores is because so many kids take it, and according to statistical measures, the more people who participate in something, whether it be a survey or a test, the more accurate the yielded results are. Statistics states that in…

Would you be content with knowing that your past elementary or high teacher had a low level of education for early childhood teaching? The term, word gap, first discovered in the 1995 Hart and Risley study argued that lower socioeconomic status (SES) children are exposed to 30 million fewer words in comparison to children in affluent households. Implications of the study primed the development of education policies that directly shape educational opportunities of language minority students…

State administered tests have been a piece of American training following the mid-1800s. Numerous individuals trust that state sanctioned tests are solid and target measures of understudy's accomplishments on the grounds that without them, strategy creators would need to depend on tests scored by individual schools. Others, then again, trust state administered testing has not enhanced understudy accomplishment, as indicated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB), went in 2002. Obviously, government…

Damages Education” submitted by Fairtest.org, they state that a nine year study by the National Research Council found negative effects of the tests such as “teaching to the test, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession…”(Fairtest). Because a schools salary, and teacher’s jobs are on the line when it comes to their students results on these test, it’s less likely that…

Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy about whether or not colleges should abolish reliance on SAT or ACT scores in the admissions process. Many believe that colleges should indeed do away with relying on these scores, and for multiple, valid reasons. The two exam scores play an unjust and inaccurate role in determining the admission of students into a college or university. The scores primarily measure the students ' test-taking abilities. College students are expected to…