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Federal policies such as these have changed mandated standardized testing significantly. It has changed the teaching and learning aspects in schools, especially under-resourced schools.
Implementing these new policies can become expensive when acquiring new tests, new texts, and more updated resources.
These state enacted policies goal is to show the effectiveness of the school's teaching and learning. Students scores will help evaluate the schools and teachers; however, not all teachers teach alike or in one particular way. Sometimes it can also be the students learning capabilities. Thus there is an achievement gap or opportunity gap.

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Societal Barriers - Segregation (jenny insixiengmay)

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Societal Barriers - Segregation (jenny insixiengmay)

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Many societal barriers remain intact through policy, practice and tradition.
Double segregation = racial segregation + segregation of social class
African American and Latino/a students are most likely to be affected by this and will attend impoverished and racially segregated school districts.
Segregation is directly linked to unequal education opportunities, because these poverty areas are least likely to have the funds they need.
The best way to improve societal barriers is to improve the poverty rate.

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Physical environment of the schools also impact the learning. Students can be affected emotionally if the physical environment or conditions are not met.
Schools that are positive, open, joyful and welcoming can have a tremendous effect compared to schools with depressing unenthusiastic learning environments.
Technology equipment, extracurricular activities, sports, libraries, etc. are all good learning school conditions.

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Teachers & Students (jenny insixiengmay)

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Teachers & Students (jenny insixiengmay)

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Teachers hold a tremendous influence in the students' learning process.
If teachers are treated professionally, and have more involvement with parents and staff, then they are more likely to contribute to the students' success.
Not all students have qualified teachers as well. Sometimes it can be due to high poverty schools, because teachers lack the needed resources.

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By: Taylor Dudley//Societal Barriers have a tremendous effect on the effectiveness of Public Education. Dating back to when schools were segregated by race, the 'separate but equal' notion was ruled unjust because in fact, there was a tremendous difference between the quality of education within the youth. In a modern society, the biggest difference is the segregation of social class in school systems. Families have had to take measures like migrating to different school districts because of the low-quality of education. Hopeful parents that don't have the financial means to migrate have to subdue their children to schools that don't have resources and tailor-made curriculum. So when a student graduates from high school, students from better school districts have a head-start at college readiness.  

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By: Taylor Dudley//Societal Barriers have a tremendous effect on the effectiveness of Public Education. Dating back to when schools were segregated by race, the 'separate but equal' notion was ruled unjust because in fact, there was a tremendous difference between the quality of education within the youth. In a modern society, the biggest difference is the segregation of social class in school systems. Families have had to take measures like migrating to different school districts because of the low-quality of education. Hopeful parents that don't have the financial means to migrate have to subdue their children to schools that don't have resources and tailor-made curriculum. So when a student graduates from high school, students from better school districts have a head-start at college readiness.  

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By: Taylor Dudley// Having proper school conditions are important. As technology advances and professions transcend its traditional progress, schools also have to advance to prepare the future professionals. Access to computers, wi-fi, coding classes, and various extracurricular activities like sports, Model UN, and debate add quality to a student's education.

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By: Taylor Dudley// Having proper school conditions are important. As technology advances and professions transcend its traditional progress, schools also have to advance to prepare the future professionals. Access to computers, wi-fi, coding classes, and various extracurricular activities like sports, Model UN, and debate add quality to a student's education.

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By: Taylor Dudley// Starting with George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" federal policy, the importance of relying on standardized test to represent student success began to take president. I remember this being huge when I was in elementary school. In fact, all we ever studied for and quizzed for was for content that would be found on Georgia's CRCT Test. At first, I didn't see the issue on the school's reliance on standardized tests. But as I completed high school, I realized there were a lot of concepts, many of them basic in nature, that I had missed out on because of the narrowness of education system. Proceeding Bush, Obama started "Race To The Top' which was very similar to Bush's NCLB.

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By: Taylor Dudley// Teachers have a tremendous effect on a student's ability to learn, and more importantly, a student's desire to learn. As mentioned in the reading,  Caroline Chauncey’s review of the research on the issue (2005) finds that teacher quality has far more of an impact on student learning than class size, per-pupil spending, students’ socioeconomic backgrounds, or previous academic performance." If that's not evidence enough of employing quality teachers for student success, i truly don't know what is.

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By: Taylor Dudley//

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NCLB (Bush, 2002) and RttT (Obama, 2009) are both federal programs that intended to raise expectations of teachers and students, which would raise the quality of the education system in America. Both these programs, however, rely heavily on mandated standardized tests; the problem with this is that not all learning can be measured on a scale of right or wrong answers. CCSS came later with the reinforcement of standardized testing for more grades and more often. These test scores are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher and the intelligence of the student, but this impersonal method of quality assurance in our education systems leaves very little wiggle room for how teachers teach, which can be detrimental to children who don't learn in the way that federal policy is requiring teachers to conduct their classrooms.

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Although schools have been segregated for less than 70 years, a new form of segregation has replaced it. Not only are schools segregated by race, but they are also segregated by social class. This "double segregation" has a large impact on African American and Latinx students negatively because it denies them access to a quality education compared to their white and more economically fortunate counterparts. There are also several "out-of-school factors" that hinder the education of students such as poor nutrition and lower class neighborhoods.

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The conditions of a school have a direct effect on the emotional environment. A school that has all the same fixtures of a jail does not promote healthy learning or effective teaching. A display of cultural diversity and a welcoming attitude shown throughout a school promotes the learning of students. A negative school environment with similar policies and administration have led to high rates of retention in schools and studies show that these kinds of schools have students that are scared to go to school and their fear continues in school, making learning nearly impossible.

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Although studies have shown that teachers influence student learning, many teachers often and neglect the power they hold in this area of the classroom. A large majority of teachers feel like their voices aren't heard in what the curriculum is that has to be taught and how they have to teach their students. Another issue with teachers is that most of them are white and older, which makes conversation in the classroom a lot harder. The fact that the students and teachers are culturally different makes the teacher less relatable to the students and vice versa.