I know that it might be hard to do but I think we, as a country need to try to work together and keep our schools on the same level. We need to follow the standards the government sets up for us to follow to the T. There should not be any teachers out there that don’t do their jobs and let their students achieve their high grade by doing less. Each and every student should have to work hard in order to get a good grade and they should meet the high standards that students in other classrooms and in other school and in other states are doing. Students in Michigan should be working on the same skills as those who are in California. I think that this is not happening right now and so there for we are running into these big problems. Some teachers may think that they are challenging their students but they really aren’t. There are a couple of different examples in theis article where students are reading the same material but when the teachers try to take it further and have the students apply what they have read to other things they have very different assignments in mind. This should really not be the case teachers should all be having their students equally challenged and working on possessing the same skills.
Another part of the article talked about grade point averages rising and basic skill knowledge lowering.
“The National Assessment of Educational Progress, an exam commonly known as the nation’s report card, found that the reading skills of 12th graders tested in 2005 were significantly worse than those of students in 1992, when a comparable test was first given, and essentially flat since students previously took the exam in 2002.”
I think that there are many different things that account for this. I think that students are given more chances to earn good grades easier ways, by participating, by doing small things and by being able to make up points that they lose on assignments and tests by doing extra credit.
All in all I think that we really need to come together as a nation and work on this problem together.
“Just slapping new names on courses with weak curriculum and ill-prepared teachers won’t boost achievement,” Kati Haycock, the Education Trust’s president, said.”
I think that if all the teachers in the nation learn of the skills that they need to teach their students and are held accountable for teaching them than students would be excelling all over.
The article . . .Grades rise, but reading scores do not!
