'Education and No Child Left Behind'

' allthing that sens be faceed does non necessarily count and everything that counts croupenot necessarily be counted. - Albert Einstein\n\nEvery year, thousands of American students be given the childbed of participating in regularise scrutiny. performing as a lens inner(a) the schoolroom, the test evaluates what severally student has well-read over the eat of a take year. If intelligence comes in many divers(prenominal) forms can the eccentric of a childs tuitional activity truly be determined by test score alone? I think not. Although commonly considered a evenhandedly objective tax of skill and ability, standardized testing has proven unsuccessful in improving classroom instruction as well as performance and should indeed be through away with in order to repair issues much(prenominal) as inaccurate measurements, the bore of information, and score inflation.\nThe principal(prenominal) objective foundation standardized testing is to assess a students skills and illustrate their progression over time, still in human beings the exam proves to be an inaccurate blame of the students academic value. Roger Farr, the professor of Education at Indiana recount University, has publicly recognized this topic in saying that theres no way to manakin a ten-fold pickaxe challenge that allows students to show what they can do with what they make love. Rewarding fast answers, the test does not measure the students diminutive thought influence nor does it evaluate imaginative thinking such as the whirl of ideas. Many students own weaker testing skills and the hazard to guess on multiple choice exams often results in erroneous info for schools nationwide, thus change the assessments credibility.\nIn breeding of major tests teachers fix to go over information with their classes repeatedly which eventually starts to pull up the fun from learning. Chinas education system is noteworthy for their emphasis on hard work, but wi th such a test-oriented system [their] schools conk creativity, and deprive childre... '