By SOPHIA ROTHMAN, age 12, and IndyKids staff In December 2015, President Obama signed into place the Every Student Succeeds Act. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons On December 10, 2015, President Obama released a new education policy called the Every Student Succeeds Act. The...
By SADIE PRICE-ELLIOTT, age 13 Activists, students, parents and teachers are concerned that the amount of time spent on standardized testing takes away from quality learning time for students. PHOTO: Sarah-Ji/Flickr Come standardized testing season this spring, some...
By ELEANOR HEDGES DUROY, age 12, and AUDREN HEDGES DUROY, age 8 Standardized tests are taking over the school (that test, that test, that test, that test) Well what do you say when the state makes that rule? (that test, that test, that test, that test) You create all...
By ADEDAYO PERKOVICH, age 10 According to Insideschools, more than 25,000 students compete for 5,000 spots at each specialized high school in NYC. PHOTO: Jeff Pioquinto, SJ Eight of NYC’s nine specialized high schools use only a single score from one exam to...
By ANA PHELAN, age 9 Throughout the United States, public schools are being shut down in various cities, officials say, to save money. They claim that the schools being shut down have too few students attending and are producing low test scores. But shutting down...
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