Chapter 11

This was a very interesting and informational chapter. There is so much to know about standards, testing and grading. As it says in the chapter administrators, teachers and students have different perspectives about standards. Administrators and teachers are concerned about performances on tests so it is good to have standards for students but students are concerned with the learning being meaningful and interesting. Thats why i believe that administrators and teachers should create standards based around information that is actually useful and fun to learn for the students because then they will more likely reach those standards set by the administrators. I also like having standards because its a goal to meet and you should always have a goal your trying to reach in your life at all times. It said in the book that in the past some students from poor families or minority groups were held to lower standards and expectations than other students. Now though we have standards that everyone should be meeting no matter your social status or ethnicity basically everyone is capable of acheiving the same goals as others when it comes to education. It is the teachers job though to make the learnig interesting and fun and to push the students to learn and remember things.