One of the most devalued concerns in the United States is tobacco smoking. A frightening addiction several young adults pick in college is smoking. Recently‚ I have noticed a trend that is popular amongst college students called hookah. Hookah‚ also known as water pipe‚ shisha‚ narghile‚ goza‚ and hubble-bubble‚ is used to smoke exotic flavored tobacco. A common misconception that is widely accepted around college campuses as well as societies everywhere is that hookah is a healthy alternative to
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once said that “If the purpose of learning is to score well on a test‚ we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning.” Students should not be required to take standardized tests. They stress out students and teachers‚ take up too much learning time‚ and they have no true purpose. It has been proven that 2.3% of time is used on testing every year for an average middle school. Usually main subjects like math‚ social studies‚ and science have more than one test. Taking only one test for each subject
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are making progress within the school year. A significant fact to consider about standardized testing‚ is that it often causes severe stress and anxiety in students. In addition to stress‚ standardized testing does not accommodate to all students.
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Each child throughout the school year is required to take standardized tests. These tests help create a better understanding of what each child individually may or may not be learning. This also shows what teachers may or may not need to improve on while teaching the class the necessary standards they will be tested on. What people fail to see about standardized testing is how the scores can help improve each child’s learning ability and the way teachers go over the material. I chose to write about
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Life Isn’t Multiple Choice Were you ever forced into taking a standardized test? If so‚ you are aware of all the test preparation you have to go through and all of the pressure you feel. “Standardized tests are tests in which all the questions‚ format‚ instructions‚ scoring and reporting of scores are the same for all test takers‚” (Standardized Tests: Terms and Definitions‚ 1). There is a lot of controversy and questions being asked pertaining to the tests because many teachers‚ students‚ and parents
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spends nearly 88 million dollars a year on standardized testing(Martinez)‚ and Florida has a $245 million dollar contract with NCS Pearson to administer their Comprehensive test(Vu). Nearly half “of all the school districts in the United states have reduced their time spent on science‚ the arts‚ and social studies” by close to 150 minutes a week in favour of the topics more heavily tested on standardized tests‚ like reading and math(Ravitch). Standardized testing is not a new topic when it comes to controversy
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In the United States the test-taking industry is a multibillion dollar practice. In the 1960’s testing companies began to exert a strong influence over education. Their salesmen convinced many school districts that multiple-choice achievement tests were the best way to rate student performance. They also persuaded the federal government that these tests were the best way to measure the progress of students in special programs like Chapter 1. In the 1980’s several major reports concluded that many
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Animal testing has become a barbaric form of testing in today’s world. It has been a debated topic for decades. Both sides have presented both strong and weak arguments alike. Those who would argue against animal testing have taken a stand due to the way it affects animals. Even in the best circumstances‚ the animals could easily be considered abused. Those in favor of animal testing‚ a quickly waning population‚ don’t seem to deny the abuse that exists. Rather‚ they argue that the pain is justified
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Arguments against testing The critics of animal testing base their argument on the grounds of morality‚ the necessity or the validity of this procedure‚ whether proper authority to perform such tests is granted‚ whether such tests are actually needed and whether such tests practically provide us with any useful information. The supporters of animal rights say that animals have the right to live their own life peacefully; and we are not allowed to meddle with them just because we can. (Alternatives
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The challenge this week was related to the good ol’ standardized testing. This year I was assigned to test the group of students that are placed in the class of newcomers‚ as in having been in the school for 2 months or less. Oh my! These students have never participated in a standardized test‚ so it was not only their first experience on a multi-hour test‚ but also at the same time it was my first experience testing brand new students in the school. Challenges went from bubbling all the answers
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