"We have turned into factories producing the same product"
The text "Rhode Island Teachers Respond to PARCC : A White Paper" from Johnson and Richer is a very easy to read and great analyzes on how teacher feel and react towards standardized test PARCC. With a very cleaver title "A White Paper", this article mentions how student race and socioeconomic status influences the student's success in the standardize test. From all the question and topics that the authors pointed out, two of them really got my attention. The perspective teacher have on students understanding of test's questions and the excessive time spending "90% disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement that those students understood most of the questions on the test." This part of the text literally surprised me. Why people even give a test where teachers, who spend year around interacting and teaching the students, do not even believe they understand the questions. What is the point? This statement made me think abo
