Investigation of Project
Are schools lowering their standards of academics or are students getting smarter?
“Are public schools getting easier or harder?”.Web.February 20, 2014
<http://www.sodahead.com/living/are-public-schools-getting-easier-or-harder/question-2252913/>
A Cambridge assessment organized by Professor Roger Murphy told the attendants the ever summer, exams are reviewed and greeted by claims the standards have fallen. His answer for this is that curriculums are always changing. He later added that the case is not the same as other countries whose curriculum are loosely tied to the school curriculum.
An example pointed out by Professor Gordon Stobart is that “climbing Everest is so much easier than it was before”(“ Are exams really getting easier?”) What he said was back in earlier times, there were only a few number of people climbing up Mount Everest, now, people have better equipment that make climbing a lot easier. That same thing can also apply to schools today. Computers, iPhones, and other resource are now out in the open giving students a high advantage in their learning experience.
Baker Mark. “ Are exams really getting easier?” BBC News. April 30, 2010.Web.February 20, 2014
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10094248>
Finally, the last reason is the fact that parents, namely in the middle class children, are put under pressure.Even with all these pressures applied to these specific group of students they are asked by their therefore improving therefore performance. With all these evidence and theories, some schools are now considering to take some surveys and determine whether schools are lowering their standards but others would argue that this is not the best choice and that schools should focus more on the regular course of school plans.
Curtis Polly. “Middle class children suffer under pressure”. Guardian News and Media. May 29, 2003.theguardian.com.February 20, 2014.
<http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/may/29/research.highereducation4>
Are schools slowing down?
By: Junnun Ali
Studies show that, schools may be getting easier for kids. A Professor named Roger Murphy told the attendants at his Cambridge assessment meeting that standards of schools have been lowered. Many people now think that school should be harder like how it was “like back in the “olden” when studying was actually necessary. He later implied that other countries such as China were much smarter than the United States. Later, after interviewing a Chinese student at Chamblee Charter High School, he said,
“To be honest, school is pretty easy, and I believe we need to be challenged more.”
He then told the interview crew that he must go home as his parents have “prepared the whipping” and the he must study for the SAT, fifty days before the time he must take the test.
Even though this boy is smart, he is also pressured by his parents, so that may become a doctor or a lawyer just like ALL of his male ancestors. However, like any other smart anti-socialist, he has time to play is MMORPG games on the weekends between the hour and 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
Professor Gordon Stobart, a man who compared this situation to Mount Everest, a mountain located in India, with a high IQ ratio, said that “climbing Everest is so much easier than it was before. We have recorded another interview where a student explains to us why this is true
“I can’t believe how easy was it for me to get A’s in my class. I just pull out my iPhone and go the greatest internet source and most trustworthy, “Wikipedia”, or just plain “yahoo answers”, and scroll down the section that I need.”
Middle class families, especially the Asian majority have been known to do exceptionally well in school. This is because these parents have given their children a certain mindset of what a grade is. Here is a response from an Indian student we had interviewed.
"When I got a B for the first time, I was literally about to cry. Finally when I got home and showed my parents, they restricted my food consumption, I was going to die.”
After giving some curry to the poor Indian, he told us his parents plan on moving back to India and study to be become a doctor, his family’s dream.
Now that most schools have been almost convinced that their lack of effort to push students today is not help the future, they will be constructing surveys to certain guinea pigs of some schools, most likely an Asian vs normal students.