BENEFITS OF HIGH STAKES TESTING Throughout the 1990s, national state a local educational leaders have focused on raising educational standards and promoting accountability within the educational community. In fact, the promotion of challenging learning standards for all students -coupled with assessment systems that monitor progress and establish challenging expectation for students. The numbers of states using tests as a condition for high school graduation is on the rise with 26 states projected to use tests as …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…high ( schools receive as much as $1,500 per teacher). Governor Hunt attributed to data showing a rise in test scores for the 1997-1998 school year: the results show us that North Carolinas school are working, our schools are working like never before to put children and their education first . President Bush favors high stakes testing as a method of ending social promotion. Former vice president Gore supports testing as away of measuring what students have learned.