Raising Academic Standards or Stepping Backwards

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…negative effects on learning. Because the consequence of the testing is detrimentally high, schools have narrowed their curriculum, and teachers have sacrificed real instruction in favor of test preparation. This leaves much of public education with rote memorization, an old outdated, ineffective form of learning, or rather non-learning. Instead of raising academic standards, the push for high stakes testing will set education progress back as well as lead to more drop outs and minority disparity.