Some parts of this chapter dealt with schooling, which is right up my alley as my degree will be in education. One of the quiz questions, the one about standardization causing dropout rates to climb, actually sparked this rant.
This semester I am writing my thesis on how a certain standardized test, PARCC, is working very, very quickly toward completely automated scoring for student essays in three years. My argument is that this will only perpetuate the issues within the standardization movement and cause even more disinterest in showing up every day for school for both the teachers and the students. I just find it disheartening that so often in education money is the most important aspect of education as opposed to the students. For example, the textbook also noted that while large schools are more cost effective, they also decrease learning across the board.
How do teachers, policy makes, administrators, and the general public make school a place that kids want to go to? How do we do this economically?
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