Diane Ravitch's The Essentials Of A Good Education
The school administration relies too much on the test scores and GPA of their students to determine their abilities in school, instead of finding the value of them as an individual and what they can achieve in other areas. The word “education” means more than just teaching students every day and testing them to see the growth of learning; it means teaching students what they need to be successful in a future career and how to be a member of society, which signifies that there is more to judge a student off of than just numbers and grades. According to an article by Diane Ravitch, titled “The Essentials of a Good Education”, the people that create school policies have the idea that getting high test scores in subjects such as reading and