Stress effects the body in so many ways health is a big one, to avoid the stress you avid the stressor. ... I'm worried about tomorrow's test." ... Children in the third grade are too young to be experiencing this kind of stress, this is the grade in which the standardized testing begins. ... Children should be taught how to learn and not taught to deal with the anxiety they are likely to endure caused from the stress of passing a test. ... Where a good school passes this test and the bad school fails. ...

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Students must also increase in theirs test scores in order to be promoted to the next level. ... He claims that the schools and the teachers go into a lot of stress having the students become proficient in their academic subjects (Rapoport, Tenth 134). ... She claims that schools headboard plans out the testing dates for the students, being a monthly test throughout the whole school year. Goodman explains that the teachers and the students get pressured on that by the time they take the state exam they are stressed out (Goodman, Teachers 264-5). ... Goodman explains that by taking so many tes...

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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 small versions of conventional schools, with textbooks and tests and traditional grades. ... A problem often stressed is that students are all very different. ... Some of the m...

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Finland achieves the same educational success, without causing the student and their family the high stress and pressure that the South Korean system induces. ... 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. ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students compare ...

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The other side of the argument is that teachers, at least in New York State, are forced to prepare students for the Regents tests that all students must take. ... If the teacher does take time to teach the multicultural version of American history, he or she is taking that much time away from preparing the students for their state mandated tests. ... If they have a desire to teach a multicultural version of American history they have to do so at the expense of the students" test grades. ... Teachers are expected to prepare students for the state mandated tests, which, in my personal expe...

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The NCLB act creates stressful school environments for schools by mandating that standardized testing weighs more than student work, increases paper work for the classroom teacher, and has shown few improvements in education overall. ... 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...

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If a teacher does everything for the child, he or she will be comfortable by doing nothing; on the contrary, if the teacher does absolutely nothing and delegates all the responsibility to the student, they will become overwhelmed and stressed, therefore, not learning as much as they can. ... When I was a mentor to my freshman, I stressed the fact that they should be themselves, while also teaching them not to judge others just because they are different. ... 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 lea...

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