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students succeed, high school education has been causing students to become unsuccessful in college. This is mainly due to the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001. The act was implemented to ‘‘ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education” (NCLB, 15). However, the NCLB act has been a huge failure. It punishes high schools and their students who struggle to meet policy requirements, limits student learning through…

and has a big effect on the academic path of students. II. However, standardized testing should be completely removed from schools and the college admissions process. The goal of the No Child Left Behind Act was to improve the education system. Studies show that actually the complete opposite happened. The Act didn’t meet its goal at all. According to standardizedtests.procon.org, “US students slipped from being ranked 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 27th in 2012, with a similar decline…

Raising Adam Lanza-Analysis of the Episode In Raising Adam Lanza, a Frontline Episode originally aired on PBS on February 19, 2013, the story of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter is examined. When the emergency alarm goes off at our school, the first question all students have, is this a drill or an actual school lockdown? Over the past ten years schools practice lockdowns and emergency evacuations on a more regular basis. What used to be a fire alarm or a tornado drill has now turned…

Acts disguised as education reform are written with social biases that will affect minority students in much larger numbers than it affects those who are not of color. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 was intended to protect the privacy of all students, but coincidentally falls short for already disadvantaged students. “FERPA allows…

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…

factors often outside of the student’s control, the child cannot be held totally responsible for the resulting score. Standardized testing causes extreme, unnecessary stress on not only the students taking the test, but the teacher as well. It…

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…

schools 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…

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…