Test case

“ 'Cause it 's the first of the month and now we smokin ', chokin ', rollin ' blunts” is a line from rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s song “1st of Tha Month”, telling how welfare recipients collect their benefits at the beginning of each month, only to go and purchase illegal substances (i.e. drugs): but how much of this holds true? (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony). Controversy has been stirred in recent years over this hot political topic of whether or not welfare recipients should be tested for drug…

Mikhail Bakunin once said, “Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.” The people who apply for jobs have to take a drug test while those on welfare can violate the use of the money. Welfare is basically financial support given to people in need. Helping people that are in need can cost money because nobody knows what they are using their check on. Many individuals do not agree with the kind of action mainly because they could be…

teaching specific topics that are only on tests they lose the time to teach other subjects. Standardized tests narrow the entire curriculum in many schools, often squeezing out subjects such as music art, foreign languages and social studies. This is an issue because these subjects are very important, just because they are not tested does not mean that they should be ignored. Only 340 million people speak English as their first language which out…

Trust me, I know stuff: A summary of Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff explores the idea that the educational system fails to recognize street smarts as a valid form of intellect. In particular, Graff suggests that schools and educators are at fault for overlooking street smarts because of the assumption that such intellect is invalid and of no use to academic learning. Although some people believe that being knowledgeable about sports,…

The concept of homework was created to help students with their school work. Getting extra work for home allows students to truly understand what they learned during the day. It is additional practice for students and will help prepare them for tests and exams. Homework also teaches children important life skills such as responsibility and perseverance. Students will have to be responsible to get their homework done on time and with good quality. Even when students don’t want to do homework, it…

better then they do. This is similar to our society because we also make kids feel inferior to others because they get worse grades then the other. The truth is the student that is ranked less could be the next Albert Einstein, but alas he/she has test anxiety and is tired often so he gets worse grades than others andbecasuse of this he gets sad frequently and can’t reach his full potential. This is just one of many hypothetical instances. My point is not to say that we should exterminate books,…

are preparing for college and career readiness. To help measure the performance of every children the state gives out a standardized test. However, in recent years testing has become a problem for the students, teachers, and the overall school environment. Testing in a nutshell is a way to measure the knowledge that a student have in a specific area. “Standardized tests provide a lot of useful information at low cost” (ProCon.org). Standardized testing includes reading, math, science and other…

Highschool sports are causing the scores nationwide to go down, and we should definitely not let them. We are the 31 in math and 17 in reading, on a test that more than 74 countries took, as said on "Have sports teams brought down America's schools?" written by Elizabeth Kolbert. Some sports are damaging our grades and we should definitely take them off. Even though we all love highschool sports and cheerish them, I stronly believe that they are no benefit for us and we should totally consider…

due to test anxiety. Students also experience levels of discomfort in their preparation of their exam and during their exam. All these emotions hinders the students’ performance. Test anxiety is defined as the emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses surrounding the potential consequences of negative evaluation on an upcoming test or exam (von der Embse, Barterian, and Segool, 2013). It has been estimated that between 10-40 percent of all students suffer from various levels of test…

Integrity is considered to be the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Wistfully, 59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test during the last year. Such impressive information contributes to the fact that now a days children don’t respect life. In this society were teachers try to do their best in educating the future of our country, it is at home were the big problem starts. Reluctantly, such integral values must be portrayed by society as…