No matter where students go to school or what kind of curriculum they are expected to follow, it is expected for them to be tested, and to test well, on generalized materials that are in the basic subjects, math, english, reading and science. All of these tests, are very common throughout the United States and are mostly used in measuring how a student will perform in their academics. All of these test vary in their states and in all grade levels. These students have been taking these tests for as long as they can remember. Standardized testing used to begin when the students are about in third grade, but now we see kids even as young as kindergarten, some of which don't even know their first names, taking standardized test. Everybody from employers to educators use these test scores as ways to label their employees or students and put them in categories. The stigma for doing "poorly" on these tests is the same stigma that people who don't go to college have to face. For some, their reasons for not …show more content…
The key question is not whether leading sectors of capital…promote standardized tests as a tool for making major, “high-stakes” decisions about students, educators, and schools. The better, and unanswered, questions are: Why are tests such an important weapon, What are the goals of the test-driven offensive, How does testing interact with other corporate school “reform” goals, and What can be done to turn this around? (Assessor 67).
As they say in the quote above, standardized testing has become as important to education as education itself. An important question that is asked is if leading parts of capital (major corporations and business groups) are promoting these tests to make major decisions when it comes to education. Other questions that they also asked, that they say has yet to be answered, are better, more important