High-Stakes Standardized Testing

High-stakes standardized testing continues to be a controversial topic in the field of education. Parents dispute that the high-stakes Common Core aligned assessments place unnecessary stress onto their children and convert classrooms from learning environments to test prep institutions. Teacher unions have a tendency to support the Common Core standardized curriculum, however, they disagree with required high-stakes assessments, particularly when they are utilized to assess educators (Singer, 2015).
Nonetheless, the stringent conditions that student’s be assessed in math and language arts in third through eighth grade and again in tenth, and tested in science several times at each grade level. These strict conditions put a lot of attention