Standardization of Teaching and the Problems of Control

According to McNeil, the standardization of instruction the quality of instruction and learning have deteriorated. “The purpose of education is to allow a people to systematically guide the reproduction and refinement of the best of themselves” as stated by in 1990 by Wade Nobles. Instead of striving to help students refine their ideas and understanding to better themselves, teachers are instructed to teach to the test. In the middle class students seem to be absorbing the information in schools. When considering this information in conjunction with the achievement gap it is evident that schools are designed to educate some students, but not all and it would reasonably follow that the standardization of instruction would serve to increase that gap in achievement between middle and lower class minority students and their middle class white counterparts.