Standardized Testing In Elementary Schools Essay

Recently, in Upper Darby School District, one major issue has been the less than adequate performance scores on standardized testing in the literature area. Most of the elementary schools, and middle schools, have been decreasing in their scores in the reading and language arts content areas on tests like the MAP tests. However, students are exceeding expectations on the math and science portions of the test. When a student starts out elementary school with a poor basis in reading, they are already set behind their peers, no matter what their background. Students need to have their education based on a strong foundation in the language arts area because all other content areas overlap with english and reading.
Many students tend to fall behind their peers early on when they are not at the proper reading level. One reason many of these students fall so far behind is because of the lack of support from those at home. Some elementary school students are leaving in the morning without a parent or guardian seeing them off, and then come home from school and sit in an empty house for several hours. However, other students may have a parent or guardian at home who they would be able to ask homework questions to, except they cannot. Many parents are unable to help students with homework because they do not know
Then, in school, they do what would usually be considered homework. This could start out in the reading area, and then cross over to allow for this approach in math, science, and other content areas. If this approach was applied to classes, teachers would have more one on one time with students. This would allow them to see what each student’s problems are, and pose personalized solutions to help them