Persuasive Essay: The Use Of Standardized Testing In Schools
Standardized Testing
Across the nation, students are required to take standardized tests. Standardized testing is used to measure a student’s understanding and at many times, to compare a student’s intellectual ability to those of another. Students are expected to reach a certain benchmark score. The tradition of measuring intelligence through standardized testing causes issues in the education system and may even be harmful to how a student learns. It is a difficult to measure intelligence.
Test scores are used as a metric of acumen.
More often than not, curriculum is set to help students achieve higher test scores. However, when students are learning material just to reach a certain score, they are not being taught based on their needs. And when teachers of a …show more content…
school district as a whole receive poor test scores, they are punished in one way or another, whether it be lower pay, lost of school funding and resources, and even termination of employment. Even if a teacher may have the students’ best interest at heart, the fear of punishment drives them to teach to the test.
This fear is also in students. When students fear low test scores of do not feel adequate, they might resort to cheating. When students are taught to perform well on a test, is dulls students individual strengths and weaknesses. These test ignore the individuality of students.
Standardized tests don’t even accurately measure all the students learn in the classroom. Students all think in a different way and showcase their knowledge and understanding through different mediums. Students that are smart enough might due poorly on a test due a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their intellect or skill.
The education system’s obsession with test scores the expectations of high-performance are causing problems for schools and for students across the nation.
Campus Carry
The recent increase in violent crimes across the nation, particularly among school campuses, has raised the issue of campus carry. Many pro-gun activists suggest that people should be allowed to carry weapons on campus. However, on the opposite side of the spectrum, believe that this will cause more danger and weapons of any kind should not be allowed on or near any campus.
Yes, the Constitution of The United States of America gives our citizens the right to carry guns.
But no, guns should not be allowed in environments like a school campus. The allowanced of guns on the premise of an educational institution only increases the potential for harm or even death. Nowadays, the possibility of a campus shooting is no unheard of or unexpected. We live in a reality where a situation such as this, is nearly unavoidable.
Contrary to the upheaval of negative feedback on the issue of campus carry, many schools have moved forward with allowed weapons on campus. Students, staff, and all faculty are allowed to have a firearm with them at school.
Texas Secession
First Brexit.. now Texit?
The United States of America, like any other country, is a nation that is split due to people’s differing political standards and ideologies. Among the fifty states, the lone star state of Texas always talks of secession. The former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, once said, “Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even The New York Times let it slip into its pages that, Texas is the future”.
When you look at a map of North America, it is hard to miss Texas. Because of the large size of the land and the substantial population, there are enough people to maintain a country and for the populace to grow. So many people are moving to Texas for the abundance in employment and the affordable cost of living. Thanks to the amount of natural resources in Texas, the economy is flourishing, causing the job market to expand. The population in Texas is
only growing. And of course, if Texas were to secede, it’d be driven by the strong Texas pride that many citizens hold to that state. Texas has its own Constitution and even it’s own pledge of allegiance. Basically, Texas is the Kanye West of America.
However, is it possible for Texas to actually secede?
Much of the belief that Texas can actually secede and succeed is due to the state’s history of independence. In 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico and spent the subsequent nine years as its own country.
"When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived...[it is] the inherent and inalienable right of the people to...abolish such government, and create another in its stead..."
— Texas Declaration of Independence (1836)
Across the nation, students are required to take standardized tests. Standardized testing is used to measure a student’s understanding and at many times, to compare a student’s intellectual ability to those of another. Students are expected to reach a certain benchmark score. The tradition of measuring intelligence through standardized testing causes issues in the education system and may even be harmful to how a student learns. It is a difficult to measure intelligence.
Test scores are used as a metric of acumen.
More often than not, curriculum is set to help students achieve higher test scores. However, when students are learning material just to reach a certain score, they are not being taught based on their needs. And when teachers of a …show more content…
school district as a whole receive poor test scores, they are punished in one way or another, whether it be lower pay, lost of school funding and resources, and even termination of employment. Even if a teacher may have the students’ best interest at heart, the fear of punishment drives them to teach to the test.
This fear is also in students. When students fear low test scores of do not feel adequate, they might resort to cheating. When students are taught to perform well on a test, is dulls students individual strengths and weaknesses. These test ignore the individuality of students.
Standardized tests don’t even accurately measure all the students learn in the classroom. Students all think in a different way and showcase their knowledge and understanding through different mediums. Students that are smart enough might due poorly on a test due a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with their intellect or skill.
The education system’s obsession with test scores the expectations of high-performance are causing problems for schools and for students across the nation.
Campus Carry
The recent increase in violent crimes across the nation, particularly among school campuses, has raised the issue of campus carry. Many pro-gun activists suggest that people should be allowed to carry weapons on campus. However, on the opposite side of the spectrum, believe that this will cause more danger and weapons of any kind should not be allowed on or near any campus.
Yes, the Constitution of The United States of America gives our citizens the right to carry guns.
But no, guns should not be allowed in environments like a school campus. The allowanced of guns on the premise of an educational institution only increases the potential for harm or even death. Nowadays, the possibility of a campus shooting is no unheard of or unexpected. We live in a reality where a situation such as this, is nearly unavoidable.
Contrary to the upheaval of negative feedback on the issue of campus carry, many schools have moved forward with allowed weapons on campus. Students, staff, and all faculty are allowed to have a firearm with them at school.
Texas Secession
First Brexit.. now Texit?
The United States of America, like any other country, is a nation that is split due to people’s differing political standards and ideologies. Among the fifty states, the lone star state of Texas always talks of secession. The former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, once said, “Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even The New York Times let it slip into its pages that, Texas is the future”.
When you look at a map of North America, it is hard to miss Texas. Because of the large size of the land and the substantial population, there are enough people to maintain a country and for the populace to grow. So many people are moving to Texas for the abundance in employment and the affordable cost of living. Thanks to the amount of natural resources in Texas, the economy is flourishing, causing the job market to expand. The population in Texas is
only growing. And of course, if Texas were to secede, it’d be driven by the strong Texas pride that many citizens hold to that state. Texas has its own Constitution and even it’s own pledge of allegiance. Basically, Texas is the Kanye West of America.
However, is it possible for Texas to actually secede?
Much of the belief that Texas can actually secede and succeed is due to the state’s history of independence. In 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico and spent the subsequent nine years as its own country.
"When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived...[it is] the inherent and inalienable right of the people to...abolish such government, and create another in its stead..."
— Texas Declaration of Independence (1836)