"The world's greatest problems do not result from people being unable to read and write. They result from people in the world-from different cultures, races, religions, and nations being unable to get along and to work together to solve the world's problems.... A high-stakes test is a test with important consequences for whom is being tested. ... The important goal of using high-stakes testing is to measure and improve student and school system performance is laudable, it is also important that such tests are scored properly too. Mostly public schools use hiigh-stakes testing be...

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Education has a different meaning to different people. ... Many people in the United States believe our education system is in crisis (Ryan and Cooper, 440). ... The media immediately spoon-fed every word to the American public causing a tremendous stir among the people. ... Our current assessment tool is standardized or achievement testing. ... Because of this emphasis teachers have begun teaching to the tests, instead of real learning the students are only learning how to take a test. ...

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This programme also brings people together and teaches them how to co-operate in society. ... However, this represented a biased nature of the 11+ test because the questions on the second section of the test were not fair. ... In the 1960s, the Labour government got rid of the 11+ tests and made all schools comprehensive. ... Comprehensives were supposed to ignore people's social backgrounds and this upset a lot of people. ... This was a system of testing and assessment for pupils. ...

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After they have good test results, the things they learned or memorized can soon be forgotten. ... According to the American Educational Service Group, the American testing method however will help the students understand and know the material fully, for they have tests every week. ... Japanese teachers value their students only by the grades they get on the test. ... With the American educational system, people can study only what they want, can get more free time to enjoy themselves, and can express their feelings. For these reasons, it is possible to say that the people who got their educat...

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Thereafter, teaching became a highly desired, independent and creative profession, but only people with a Master´s degree could teach in Finnish basic and high school. ... Fourth, Finland´s educational system does not find it necessary to test the school and the students with standard assessments. The main reasons for this are that they prioritize individuality and creativity, so they test each student on his individual progress. ... Furthermore, they want to avoid teaching exclusively for the tests and competition among students, because they think that testing must positively affect the st...

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To many, the bill should be removed or revised because it is, in fact, leaving people behind. ... By observing young people at school, it can be observed that when their parents where at the school, they were more attentive. ... The Act also makes it look as if the school systems now are all about test grades [OBr13] [Deb09]. Every meeting that teachers have are about to get test grades higher. However, what good are test grades being higher if the student did not learn anything on the test and the teacher gives them the answer to improve AYP so that the school can get extra federal funding? ...

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Finland does not do any assessments or testing of their students until they finish secondary school at age sixteen. ... The U.S. testing system could be reformed by schools or states, as long as the main goals were being accomplished. ... The U.S. should discontinue testing until children are older as officials do in Finland. ... In order to be innovative, people need to be creative and have imagination, if that is squashed in a child at a young age, who can say it will return when it is needed later on in life? ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students ...

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For example, the establishment of the No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) enables the assessment of public schools through standardized testing. ... In David Hursh's (Date) article, it mentioned "how testing policies further legitimize program differences by forcing schools with low test scores (those composed primarily of students of color and students living in poverty) to institute more regimented methods of instruction"" (p. 157). This quote means that the testing policies enforced in public schools are making it more difficult for low-income students to achieve higher test scores, bec...

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We can measure this in various ways, but, naturally, I come back to standardized test scores, a common indicator of academic success. ... With 65 nations participating in the PISA testing, these are hardly numbers to write home about. ... This relationship is similar across reading and science tests, and in schools across the nation. ... Diversification also helps the social aspect of education that has been lost in the standardized testing craze. Students who attend school with students from different socioeconomic backgrounds have a broader and more nuanced worldview and are more prepared ...

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This would be a plus toward the schools that continue to have problems with students scoring low on their standardized test. ... Most schools believe that more time in the required classes will improve standardized test scores, instead of having them involved in the arts. ... In today's society, people have to be careful about what they spend money on in order to allow their family to survive. ... In response, people in this society have decided that the 'arts' are not the most important attributes in our current economy. ... Current communities have started to thrive more on t...

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Many people have argued against home schooling for various reasons', others see no negative outcomes that arise from it. ... Many states have additional requirements, such as the submission of a curricular plan, testing of students, or less frequently testing requirements for p! ... "Some people think I am being paranoid or that I am overreacting. ... Social development tests showed that the children rated closely in self-concept and assertion (Packard 21). Another test showed that home schooled children scored higher on self-concept than public school students (Farris). ...

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In discussions and debates about longer school days, many people are arguing about whether or not to add 90 minutes to each school day. ... Time sampling research - of students for all social classes and in a wide range of schools " has shown that young people are less happy in school than in any other setting in which they regularly find themselves. ... "The argument that more time in school increases test's scores is debatable. Countries that score better than we do on international standardized tests require fewer hours of schooling per year than we do. ... I'm a music teach...

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All Standards and Benchmarks from the 370 school districts in Iowa should be gathered, checked for consistency, then we can measure testing and instruction. ... Basically, this is to see if we are teaching what we"re testing for. ... When so many people have worked for so long on something, it should get a lot of attention. ... If we would collect all the Standards and Benchmarks and look for consistency, couldn't that lead to better testing? ... Testing will work better when variables are minimized. ...

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Only with repeated trials and testing of these knowledge and application of knowledge, students are then able to apply what they have learnt during school to their working life. ... This is another aspect in which the education system has provided ample opportunities for students to test out what they have learnt in simulations in the real world. ... Students, nowadays, are a group of highly pragmatic people. ... Whether one is a leader or a follower, this ability to relate to other people and understand other people is highly important. Unless one a hermit, it is inevitable that one need...

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No matter the level of integration, there are advantages and disadvantages to the approach and using it effectively requires a delicate balancing act between the needs to address the requirements of high stakes testing with the desire to engage students in what they need to learn. ... Although teachers might be excited and initially supportive of the change, there is a question regarding the plan for addressing the issues that inevitably come up when people work in groups across time (Loepp, 1999). ... They also need to take professional development time to understand how their discipline ca...

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Most people have given credit for the increase in the number of home schooling to the growth of fundamentalist Christianity, although no one will ever know for certain. ... Some parents are dissatisfied with the quality and lack of responsiveness of schools, and home schooling provides them with a chance to initiate their ideas about education, and to test their own teaching skills. ... "This may be why home-schooled children generally score quite well on standardized tests, averaging between the sixty-fifth and ninetieth percentiles" (Sadker). ... Some home schooling families operate like sm...

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Probably the same people who would want an incompetent teacher. ... It is not as exciting as chocolate, and many people shy away from it for the reason that they do not like it, but it is beneficial. ... Ravitch asserts in her article that "the idea that teachers are the most important factor [in] determining student achievement is false -teacher quality accounts for about 7.5-10 percent of student test score gains (2). ... Instructors have to make do with whatever curricula and materials they are given even if they believe that they are ineffective since they do not control curriculum, standa...

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However, some people feel that the same grading system should be used for everyone without exception. ... What exceptions the Delaware Department of Education have made in terms of the State tests are allowing an alternate assessment called the Delaware Alternate Portfolio Assessment (DAPA), and also allowing the DAPA with accommodations (Delaware Department of Education, n.d.). Other alternate testing can be achieved with the approval of the Individual Education Program team (Delaware Department of Education, n.d.). Addressing the teacher accountability issue, the IEP team must follow guideli...

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Despite there being policies developed to help improve educational attainment, some policies are not being implemented properly which means that a lot of people, particularly those with Special Educational Needs (Cassen & Kingdon 2007), are becoming losers because the Government are not doing enough to make legislation work in their favour. ... He found that the barrier to this intercultural education is not just a lack of knowledge about other cultures etc. but more how this people are interpreted and represented (Shim, 2012). ...

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I want to empower students to become better people and contribute positive aspects to this society. ... It's important to have an open mind and not have a stigma towards different races and religions like many people do nowadays. ... When assessing my students, I will most likely give out pre-tests to see how much the students know about the subject we are about to learn. I will get to know each student's' individual capabilities and recognize that there are factors to bad test taking, like anxiety, ADHD, etc., and try to accommodate to the child's needs. One example i...

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Educators were no longer drilling information into the masses and testing the regurgitation of said information. ... Why should they not be worried about the poisonous radiation levels around them due to testing in New Mexico and the Philippines? ... In the research of John Dewey for this paper people can read his own works, and really trie to understand his entire theory. ... Dewey repeatedly referred to the population and society's need and dire straights to educate their young to aid in the rise in prosperity not only as a generation or nation, but also as a people. ... Not one for st...

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Can these characteristics be identified and somehow taught to others, or are these just instinctual, possibly even cultural, behaviors that people simply possess?... There were five successful approaches and they included: (1) a program explicitly designed to teach comprehension skill, (2) teaching strategies that enable students to learn how to learn, (3) step-by-step instructions for teachers, (4) field tested and revised to suit school/district issues, and (5) motivates success for future learning. The idea was that successful inner-city schools need to align curricular objectives, teaching...

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The typical curricula, tests, and learning tools used in public schools were created by middle-class educators and are geared toward the needs of middle-class children. ... Researchers found that more middle-class parents have higher expectations and goals for their kids than parents of lower-class children, and that children from higher class families typically have higher IQs, GPAs, and test scores than kids from lower-class families (Chilcott, 264-65). ... Because different types of skills are often taught in different levels of tracking, the people in lower tracks (a majority of which are ...

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The people of Russia were trying to establish themselves as separate republics, with their own characteristics. ... These standards were falling dangerously, as students began to fail science, math, and literature tests (Britannica on-line). These tests were common and routine for Soviet-era children. ... Therefore, with out the reformation of higher education, the people of Russia would be lacking adequate skills to survive. ... The U.S. on the other hand was made aware that education was imperative and necessary for people to become successful. ...

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People have focused on the administrators, the supplies being giving, and even the lessons being taught. ... Without the assurance people argue that teachers will no longer have loyalty to institutions and therefore put institutions at risk. ... Though sharing the same good intentions there are two spectrums of people that view the subject very differently. ... People like Dr. ... Tenure should be abolished and faculty members ought to be put on contracts where evaluations and test are put in place every so often to ensure that students are getting the best possible education. ...

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