ct academic excellence" (Canon, 2001). Donaldson points out that standardized tests help to identify the skills that students need to know when they leave each grade level and they aid in building a strategy for instruction of those skills" (Canon).
According to Kohn opponents of standardized testing believe that the pressure to perform well on the tests actually lowers education standards. "Schools across the country are sacrificing recess, art and music, activities that help students build social skills" (Kohn, 2001).
Standardized testing is said to bring with it punishment for students with low scores and punishment for the teachers for having students with low scores. Many believe that teachers are left experiencing a personal debate regarding their role as educators. Many teachers are leaving the profession as a whole and others are leaving their low-income school districts to join better districts in order to achieve personal goals such as promotion that is often hindered by low sores on standardize
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