Education Trends

I see a conflict in education coming upon us rapidly. This weeks reading affirmed my thoughts on the conflict. I feel like the education world is leaning more and more towards a student centered classroom where the teacher is more of a facilitator meant to encourage the inquisitive student mind. But I feel like the way the politics of education are going, we are trending more and more towards national standardized testing that leads to national curriculum. The perceived gap between the U.S. and other countries in education is leading us towards more and more standardized testing. I see that standardized testing leads to more teacher centered classrooms, particularly if teacher's pay becomes tied into the results of this standardized testing. This is not a good thing for education. I think that accountability for teachers is a good idea and needed, but I feel like standardized testing is not the best way to gauge teacher success and also student learning. Many things that are learned in school cannot be measured by standardized tests.