Scholarly Paper On School Reform

Scholarly Paper

ASB #: 0804722 Date 1/15/18

School Reform

What if every student could achieve their full potential, if they could change the world? If students could reach their full potential there would be fewer adults working lower paying jobs. Schools are not made to help each student become successful, schools hold standards that are unrealistic for today's jobs. Common core, Standardized testing, and a lack of accommodation for learning disabilities are the biggest problems that causes students to not reach their full potential in school. This is why in the next 5 years, schools should be reformed to accommodate all students needs and prepare students for their future.

Common core, a standard that claims to help each student be college

In an article called “Why high school exit exams are a waste of time” by Stan Karp, the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey's Education Law Center, says that “high school students that miss the mark of exit exams are the people that are pushed out of University Admissions into the streets and prisons”(Why high school exit exams are a waste of time). If we are pushing every child that can’t make a mark into the streets just because they are not gifted in Math or English, we are only creating a future full of failed potential. It is important to know that engineers and doctors are not the only happy people. In An article from the Student Resources in Context, says that although test scores are slowly rising only one third of students are deemed college ready. The fact that only a third of students are getting a higher education shows all of the wasted potential in the two thirds of students. If this was fixed we would have more people in college. A common counter to this is that standardized tests are the easiest way to test a large group of students like a school. However the nail in the coffin, the creator of Standardized tests, Fredrick J Keely, once said “These tests are too crude to be used and should be abandoned.”. Fredrick Keely knew that his tests don’t show the students progress, yet we are still using them to fail students. If we can rid schools of Standardized tests in the next 5 years we can stop testing students based on the perfect model and base their scores on their personal