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today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop a skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.” – Howard Gardner 1991 The NCLB (No Child Left Behind) act was implemented in the year 2001 by President Bush as a way to improve our education system in America. A way that has caused for an over emphasis on testing while holding teachers accountable for those results; thus leading to…

She states that standardized testing resulted from the No child left behind bill enacted by congress that aimed at ensuring that all children in America would attain free elementary education. Although the author was at the forefront of advocating for this system, she is now opposed to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this…

For decades Diane Ravitch was a tremendous supporter and proponent of school reform, advocating for government and privatized educational reforms such as America 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), accountability, and charter schools. The ideas of reconstructing and reorganizing the public school system seemed like it was too good to be true; and Ravitch realized that this vision was in fact just that. Through Ravitch’s experiences, she has been exposed to the truth of the reforms that took…

Minimizing the Impact One billion dollars. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, the state would lose one billion dollars in federal funds if less than 95% of students participated in State assessments (Illinois General Assembly). This came up during the discussion of Bill HB-0306, also known as the opting out bill. From what I have gathered throughout my twelve years in school, standardized tests were made to narrow achievement gaps and help boosts test scores in the U.S. They are…

evaluates the curriculum initiative of Direct Interactive Instruction (DII) and its effectiveness in attaining higher scores on state level assessments in math and English. Clement Middle School took on this challenge in hindsight of the No Child Left Behind Initiative in which closing the gap in levels of student performance was seen as the ultimate tool in combating successful academic outcomes. “Educators are always called to consider something new, something that enables students to…

beyond the test. A standardized test is any examination that is administered and scored in a predetermined and standard manner (Popham). Young children all over the United States are now required to take standardized tests according to the No Child Left Behind Act…

discussed if students should or shouldn’t be scored for testing. Scholars have been exposed to standardized tests regularly over the years that they are in school. This is because of the laws which have been passed by Congress. Such law as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the law has directed to a rage of standardized testing, altering weeks and even months of educational time into assessment prep in many institutes through the state. Judgments concerning the appraisal of institutes and scholars are…

Are Standardized Test Beneficial To Anyone? Are students failing the test, or are the tests failing the students? In the year 1991 an average high school student took an averaged of anywhere from eighteen to twenty-one standardized test throughout the course of their academic career. I can only imagine that those numbers and the stakes associated with the test have increased since then. We rely on test to tell us so much information, but is that test doing students any good? Personally I don’t…

In 2002, former President George W. Bush signed The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 into law with bi-partisan support. While signing NCLB into law, Former President Bush said, "Today begins a new time in public education... America 's school will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results" (Olson, 2002). As a reauthorization and improvement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, NCLB had a mission to increase school and teacher accountability in order to narrow…

Standardized testing is very well used by education boards to test students achievements all throughout the nation. These rigorous tests are given at various points in a student’s schooling. Standardized testing was introduced as apart of the No Child Left Behind Act which passed Congress in 2001 and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. According to an article written in 2008, it states “High-stakes testing and mandated assessments have become the primary vehicles for…