Persuasive Essay: The Use Of Standardized Testing In Schools
Standardized Testing
Across the nation, students are required to take standardized tests. Standardized testing is used to measure a student’s understanding and at many times, to compare a student’s intellectual ability to those of another. Students are expected to reach a certain benchmark score. The tradition of measuring intelligence through standardized testing causes issues in the education system and may even be harmful to how a student learns. It is a difficult to measure intelligence.
Test scores are used as a metric of acumen.
More often than not, curriculum is set to help students achieve higher test scores. However, when students are learning material just to reach a certain score, they are not being taught based on their needs. And when teachers of a …show more content…
Contrary to the upheaval of negative feedback on the issue of campus carry, many schools have moved forward with allowed weapons on campus. Students, staff, and all faculty are allowed to have a firearm with them at school.
Texas Secession
First Brexit.. now Texit?
The United States of America, like any other country, is a nation that is split due to people’s differing political standards and ideologies. Among the fifty states, the lone star state of Texas always talks of secession. The former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, once said, “Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even The New York Times let it slip into its pages that, Texas is the future”.
When you look at a map of North America, it is hard to miss Texas. Because of the large size of the land and the substantial population, there are enough people to maintain a country and for the populace to grow. So many people are moving to Texas for the abundance in employment and the affordable cost of living. Thanks to the amount of natural resources in Texas, the economy is flourishing, causing the job market to expand. The population in Texas is
Across the nation, students are required to take standardized tests. Standardized testing is used to measure a student’s understanding and at many times, to compare a student’s intellectual ability to those of another. Students are expected to reach a certain benchmark score. The tradition of measuring intelligence through standardized testing causes issues in the education system and may even be harmful to how a student learns. It is a difficult to measure intelligence.
Test scores are used as a metric of acumen.
More often than not, curriculum is set to help students achieve higher test scores. However, when students are learning material just to reach a certain score, they are not being taught based on their needs. And when teachers of a …show more content…
Contrary to the upheaval of negative feedback on the issue of campus carry, many schools have moved forward with allowed weapons on campus. Students, staff, and all faculty are allowed to have a firearm with them at school.
Texas Secession
First Brexit.. now Texit?
The United States of America, like any other country, is a nation that is split due to people’s differing political standards and ideologies. Among the fifty states, the lone star state of Texas always talks of secession. The former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, once said, “Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even The New York Times let it slip into its pages that, Texas is the future”.
When you look at a map of North America, it is hard to miss Texas. Because of the large size of the land and the substantial population, there are enough people to maintain a country and for the populace to grow. So many people are moving to Texas for the abundance in employment and the affordable cost of living. Thanks to the amount of natural resources in Texas, the economy is flourishing, causing the job market to expand. The population in Texas is