Persuasive Essay On Standardized Testing

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“No pressure!” your math teacher declares as she passes out the third exam that week. You attempt to grasp how to find the area of a circle’s radius from the very back of your brain, but you just can’t remember. Students should have to take less standardized tests. These assessments take up too much time, students and teachers should know how well they are doing without having to take fourteen other tests, and students stress and obsess over testing. First of all, too much valuable learning time is spent testing. According to Newsela article on standardized tests, about 20-25 hours are spent each year specifically on standardized tests. Likewise, the average public school eighth grader spends about 2.3% of the school year taking exhausting