Argument Against Standardized Testing

Standardized tests are destroying our academic integrity, causing schools to drill core curriculum into students, creating a one size fits all standard for students to adapt to, and placing teachers and students under tremendous stress while leaving American children behind academically.
Body Paragraph 1- Drilling Curriculum
Topic Sentence: Drilling curriculum into students has become an everyday practice in schools across the United States.
Evidence: According to Tim Walker, writer for NeaToday in his article, “Our schools, once vigorous and dynamic centers for learning, have been reduced to mere test prep factories, where teachers and students act out a script written by someone who has never visited their classroom and where ‘achievement’ means nothing more than scoring well on a bubble test”(3).
Summation of importance of quote: This is not uncommon in schools across the United States. Many argue that standardized tests are
For these reasons, they are used for decisions about admission to colleges, graduate programs, and professional schools as well as qualification and licensing for many skilled occupations and demanding professions such as law and medicine.”
Summation of importance of quote: Although advocates suggest that standardized tests are fair, and objective as a way to accurately assess schools, they fail to accurately discuss how students learn materials for the tests. Unfortunately schools have became accustomed to teaching to the multiple choice formatted tests. As a result students are not receiving a variety of learning techniques to learn materials. Really how can students gain the knowledge that they need when the test curriculum only caters to that one