EDL 204 Chapter 1: American School Crisis
12 Sep 2016
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Many nations have much higher test scores than the u. s. Critics have been complaining about lazy, incompetent teachers for the past 60 years. Just because we have lower test scores doesn"t mean the u. s. is going to disappear, like the race to put sputnik in orbit, they beat us but we are here and the soviet union is gone. Those tests don"t allow students to create, innovate, imagine or think outside the box. Teachers have one of the most difficult jobs because we must be able to communicate with students from many different backgrounds. Single-parent homes have become the norm, popular culture has changed as well. Today everyone must graduate and get a diploma. Congress made mandate for special education; they were suppose to pay 40% of the cost but never have. No child left behind: congress imposed standardized testing as part of school reform. Thought schools would try harder to see rapid gains in test scores.
