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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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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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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Welfare is a very hard subject to debate. There are advantages and disadvantages to the current welfare system. Without transfer payments‚ people who have inadequate income would be at risk for having no food‚ no shelter‚ and no healthcare‚ which is both sad and immoral. Sometimes people come across hardships that put them in financially devastating positions. In these cases‚ welfare is needed in order for these people to keep their head above water and maintain their lifestyle. I do not believe
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Drug Testing Government Assistance Recipients All over the United States Americans are using government assistance money to buy drugs. It has become a major issue in the past years. Americans have figured out how to abuse the system. They are taking the governments money and are fueling their drug addictions. In order to fix this states across the United States have already started drug testing their applicant’s. Some states disagree because they believe it is stereotyping government assistance
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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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Welfare Welfare is a charity to the people‚ organized by the government. There are many issues that are associated with the welfare program. Is society ultimately responsible for the well-being of the poor? If so‚ how do we help those people that are less fortunate? At what cost are we required help them? Are they to be held in any way responsible for themselves? How do we control and reform the way people spend their welfare support? Differentiating between who receives welfare and who
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Standardized testing has gotten a lot of arguments in the classroom. Students from kindergarten through 12th grade take a lot of test‚ but does this necessarily mean it is a positive effect on students? There are two sides to this‚ there are pros and of course there are cons to a standardized test. Everyone has their view on standardized testing‚ which one are you? Pros The first pro according to a University of Arkansas is that students don’t feel like testing is too stressful (Standardized Test-
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When it comes to the topic of prescription drugs being regulated‚ most of us will readily agree that this is a big concern for many Americans. Where this argument usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of why do Americans pay some of the highest prices for prescription drugs compared to other countries. Whereas some are convinced that these high costs are set solely for the fact of the amount of money spent on producing these drugs‚ others maintain that there is an opportunity for medication prices
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