Every year high school juniors wake up go to a testing facility that’s often not their regular classroom or school‚ and take a standardize test. The point of these tests is to give an equal opportunity to all students to show colleges their academic potential. Sixteen year old Darius Smith‚ African American student sits down to take his standardize test. Little does he know he is at a ninety nine point disadvantage just because of his race. Darius is not alone as standardize tests are riddled with
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Attention students‚ please quiet down. Refrain from opening the test booklet until told to. Please refrain from flipping back to the previous test‚ or flipping ahead to the next test until instructed to begin it. When time is called‚ put your pencil down and stop filling in the bubbles. Standardized tests show schools how well students comprehend what they learned throughout their school year. Standardized tests show students how much they learned and progressed over the years. Taking these tests
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Pro’s and Con’s of Animal Research Introduction Animal research is for many a controversial subject. This is because while we do make significant progress by using animals as test subjects‚ animals still have rights. There comes a point when we have to ask ourselves when do our moral obligations outweigh the rewards. Where do we draw the line? Moral Obligations and The Three R’s Perhaps the biggest issue with animal research is the morally gray
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Should Animals be used for Research? Should Animals be used for research? This question is very controversial you’re either for it or against it there’s no sitting on the fence with this one. The pros of animal research are that it helps researchers to find what drugs and treatments help the best‚ improves human health‚ and helps ensure safety of drugs. Just reading these 3 pros makes animal research seems needed‚ but with the good there is always the bad. Some cons to animal research which are
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for diseases and illnesses‚ or even regular medicine doctors prescribe. But there are many that do. They use animals to test what will work‚ and what will not
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it fair to put such immense pressure on high school students? The question is not how to reduce stress and fear of the students‚ but rather how to improve their confidence to perform well on these standardized tests . “High-stakes” standardized testing is necessary to
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As Aaron Churchill of edexcellence.net says‚ “Standardized exams are objective measures. They assess students based on a similar set of questions‚ are given under nearly identical testing conditions‚ and are graded by a machine or blind reviewer. They are provide an accurate‚ unfiltered measure of what a student knows‚” (Churchill). Standardized tests are graded completely anonymously‚ and are all multiple choice answers‚ which means
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many rules that are put into place. One of these rules is high-stakes testing. The controversy with high-stakes testing is that is it really helping the students or is it hurting the education system? In this paper I will discuss what high-stakes testing is‚ some pros and cons of high-stakes testing‚ and a way teachers can perhaps deal with high-stakes testing (High-Stakes Testing‚ 2014). In the education world high-stakes testing is used to make decisions about schools‚ teachers‚ and students for
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Twenty-six million animals suffer an inconceivable amount of torture each year. While there are rules in place to alleviate some of this pain‚ they do not fully protect the animals being tested on. Animal experimentation has been practiced since 500 BC (ProCon.org). The laws do not prohibit pain necessary for the experiment. Animals anguish in pain year in and year out due to the unnecessary experiments executed on them. This is inhumane and cruel. The scientist performing these experiments are monsters
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Animal Testing Have you ever wondered how people figured out if medicine works? Animal testing‚ or animal experimentation‚ has been going on for a long time. It is the process of using animals with similar DNA‚ such as chimpanzees‚ to test new cosmetic and medical products to try and figure out how they will work on humans. It is a very controversial subject . Some people argue animal testing provides valuable information for people and new products; Animal testing needs to be stopped because it
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