The Importance Of Standardized Testing In Urban Schools

Many students disliked the keystones state-mandated standardized tests all over the tri-state area. The experience that I had in the past at my old school was some of the teachers was not teaching all or barely any of the information that was gonna be on the test. If the did it would not be laid out the same exact way as they taught it. These keystone tests must go they are making kids in school feel dumb and stressing them out. The problem with the keystones that these tests are put in place to see if you are really learning what is being taught that year but sometime student can't always remember everything they learned that year even if they have there not to refer to for help like a teacher but hardly teachers don't cover all the problems
So in my head, I was like they created this test so a student in Urban and low-income schools exceeded and get their diploma to move on to college. I feel they created this test to compare each school but also for the students that are in average school who do succeed. In the article of The Pedagogy of Poverty, Versus Good Teaching states that A teacher in an urban school of the 1990s who did not engage in these basic acts as the primary means of instruction would be regarded as deviant. Also in the article it states that the teaching acts that constitute the core function of urban teaching are giving information, asking questions, giving direction, making assignments, monitoring seatwork, reviewing assignments, giving tests, reviewing tests, assigning homework, reviewing homework, settling disputes, punishing noncompliance, marking and grading papers so which basically means that if you did do any that than you wasn't. At my old school when I took the tests and failed all of them and was as angry but when I had to take the again the next I took my time and took it serious and failed