Category: American Education System

Commercialization of Education in Standardized Testing The commercialization of education is defined as private ownership of educational institutions that make investments for the motive of earning profit. Recently, the commercialization of education has proliferated on a global scale because of the reliance of standardized testing for acceptance into higher educational institutions. Marketing tactics used by…

Throughout generations, public schools have faced a number of issues, ranging from structural issues in schools to mental health issues within the student body. The primary issue I have chosen to address is standardized testing within public school systems. This is a crucial issue because I believe that standardized testing is not an efficient manner…

Politics in Education The American Education System has always had a close relationship with politics. Over time, this relationship has become increasingly complicated as the education system relies more on a government that does not consistently fulfill its needs. In this essay, three different aspects of the education system in America will be evaluated. The…

The chaotic crowd swarms the hallways desperately attempting to get a final breath of freedom before being consumed by the endless sharpening of number two pencils and the excruciating levels of stress that dominates the standardized testing environment. Standardized testing is the machine that programs childrens brains into a robotic, identical, and non-inventive way of…

Albert Einstein once said, Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. This quote reflects a common feeling among many students. This feeling is by no means new. In 1901, the College Examination Board was…

Whats Wrong with the American Education System? In many fields, the United States is often referred to as the world’s best nation. It may be one of the greatest, but in education, it’s far from it. Of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 34 nations in total, it ranks only 14th in art, 23rd…

Should Exams be outlawed in favor of another assignment? Exams often do little more than measure a persons ability to take exams. A test or examination is an assignment intended to measure a test-takes knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness or classification in many other subjects. Imagine if failing a test was considered to be a…

Throughout the years, standardized testing has been regarded as the way to measure how much a student has learned over a period of time. It is seen as such because it provides an objective and reliable measure of student achievement, which plays a huge role on major decisions about the students future, such as grade…

The American education system has become a corrupt institution and will soon fail all together. Every since elementary school, I can recall students receiving different treatment than I did, but I dismissed it because it was always in my favor. I have always excelled in my courses, so I assumed that was why I had…

Abstract This paper explores the effect standardized tests have on the American education system. As the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) has greatly increased the amount of standardized test in the United States, most prominently the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), this paper analyzes the effectiveness of those tests. The Programme for International…