Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing In American Public Schools

Rounds and rounds of testing, nothing else to do but study for tests. Tests that will decide your future, nothing will change the decision that will be made, a chance that takes you months of preparation and hard work. A road block of four hours of testing. The chances of you failing are very high, all that pressure, and then few months of waiting, if you fail, that’s it, everything is gone, you future is swallowed by a dark storm that has consumed your delusion.

Standardized tests are overused in our society and don’t provide an accurate picture of student progress. Standardized tests do not provide a whole picture of a student’s real talent, which means that most students have talent, but don’t have a chance to share it with world.

test makers are for-profit organizations. It’s an easier way to evaluate a student or a teacher. Educational success should be measured by a student’s talent, effort and their performance. Every classroom should have a well-educated, professional teacher, and school systems should recruit, prepare, and retain teachers who are qualified to do the job. Yet in practice, American public schools generally do a poor job of systematically developing and evaluating teachers. Many policy makers have recently come to believe that this failure can be remedied by calculating the improvement in students' scores on standardized tests in mathematics and reading, and then relying heavily on these calculations to evaluate, reward, and remove the teachers of these tested

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