The Global Achievement Gap - Chapter 3

-In the beginning of chapter 3 Wagner showed some questions that the 10th grade students from Massachusetts had to take for the Massachusetts standerized tests. In those questions he talks about how some of the questions could be taked in two diffeent ways and he also talked about how some of the math problems were to complicated and required more time to answer than the time they are given to complete it.-He goes on to explain how these tests do not teach the kids how to survive in the outside world. He talked about how the tests only teach the kids how to take tests and nothing else, what they study for, for the tests, they will not remember after the tests because their main purpose was to pass the test and notto actual remember it for later in their lives.- Later in the chapter he talks about some of the requirements for colleges, specifically he talks about the advanced math requirment for many colleges. Wagner talks about how the colleges say that by taking the advanced math the students would be a better prepaired for college life but Wagner has not found evidence that supports their claim. He goes on talk about insted of advanced classes in college kids should be taken challenging classes in high school because that would better prepair them for college.- Wagner then when on to talk to students that took AP classes in high school, they told him that the classes helped them with being prepaired fo college but they also did say that most of what they did was merize the material. I personially have taken AP classes and I think they greatly helped me with being prepaired for college and I think students should be required to take at least one AP course before they graduate from high school.