The Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing In Schools

A new report by the Washington-based Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution calculates states spend a combined $1.7 billion annually on standardized testing a year and continues to increase each year due to the low score students perform on state given test. Testing has been used since the mid-1800 and is becoming a part of people’s daily lives if it’s a mathematical test or getting your driver’s test. Since test have become such a known concept use in schools. The Department of Education requires students to take a state assessment to see not how the student are performing but, for the school district as well. Standardized testing has many benefits, but should the Department of Education put so much emphasis on standardized testing in schools? In this research paper I will I be discussing the Pros and Cons of standardized testing effect in an education workforce.

When this act was issued from George W Bush to insure that all fifty states in America were required to take annual tests grade three through eighth. To ensure that teachers and schools are being accountable to the taxpayer’s dollars. The main reason for this policy was many? First stated by the Political Fact Virginia that in 2000 for the United States we were ranked number 18th in math/reading but in just nine years we so called “slipped” to number thirty one in the world by 2009. (Madsen) The United States felt that just less than a decade of dropping significantly in math and reading, it cannot just be the student’s faults. The government made an emphasis on the schools districts as a whole creating a focus on testing in