Citation: Opinion | Race and the Standardized Testing Wars – the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/race-and-the-standardized-testing-wars.html.

Summary: Standardized testing has created a lot of significant issues for parents, students, and teachers. Testing results were broken down by race, income, and disability status to evaluate students’ tests and consider them reliable. Parents would refuse to have their children participate, which caused them to unintentionally choose to oppose attempts to enhance students’ education. Standardized testing is considered to be racist because the families that were to be opting out were disproportionately white and middle class. Testing members viewed those who were opting out of standardized testing as coddling suburbanites. However,  while arguing that urban parents, who had more serious concerns about the standard of their children’s schools, supported the tests. Opposition to standardized testing was proposed to be a form of white privilege. Many have been criticizing the tests and starting a rift with civil right groups that involve black and hispanic educators who support the use of testing. Many have argued that the main focus on testing was based on struggling schools to cut back on improving programs like field trips and arts education. (Not Finished)

Reflection: I agree, that standardized testing does have some aspects that indicates racism and a biased system towards black, latin, native and asians.

Quotation: Near the middle of the article the author noted: “Others say that the tests are damaging to students’ self-esteem, because students interpret low scores as proof that they are inferior and destined to fail.”