On January 8, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, NCLB, which was an education law that used high stakes testing as their bases on children's education. Although recently replaced in 2015, by President Barack Obama, with the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA. This new act is fairly different from the old NCLB act, but it is incorporating some of the ideas into the new act, like with testing. Schools should be teaching children according to their learning pace and abilities because not all students work or learn the same way. Educators are typically not able to go over all of the topics that should be discussed in the course, or they cannot go in depth with the subject because it is not something that would be seen on the test. …show more content…
A lot of students are not receiving the education that they could because of the testing.”(Dianis High-Stakes Testing Hasn’t Brought Education Gains). Standardized tests have almost eliminated the education that students need to receive. The students in of this generation should have the same opportunity to learn and develop themselves into contributing adults of society. Without proper knowledge, there could be an increase in poverty because the students were not able to meet their test requirements which could limit or take away scholarships. Even if the child is able to go to college, there are chances that they will drop out because of the knowledge they did not receive to prepare them for the field they went in to. Also, standardized tests seem to be used as a way to test what educators have been teaching in their classrooms. After tests teachers are coming up with ways to make their lesson plans more tailored to what is going to be on the tests, which does not necessarily mean they are helpful to students