Testers that create standardized test for students to measure their growth have come under more and more scrutinize for their fairness in all areas. Also, critics question whether the test measure all types of learning that are taking place in the classroom environment. There is a push to do away with standardized testing by educators. However, politicians and people from outside education such as, the Gates family and the Walton family, continue to push for standardized test to be the measure of how well a teacher is performing. When you have the type money, power and influence these two families have, whatever they want typically gets down. For this reason, I do not see standardized testing going away very soon. This is in spite of the fact it is proven in the most successful public education programs of other countries, that standardized testing is not the most successful way to teach children. Again and again, when you research other countries with successful education programs, they list keeping politicians out and limiting testing as one of the factors that they believe is leading to their success.
Derek Fitzhnery
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