The United States education system has been changed, reworked, and controlled since it has been in place. Put the words education and reform in the same room and you have a full-fledged debate on your hands. The definition of education is so broad that it cannot be answered without reflection; most scholars would struggle to fit its definition into one sentence. It's fair to say that even Education Minister Arne Duncan would have difficulty defining it within the confines of one sentence. Because education is defined in such broad terms, people have a hard time trying to make it perfect. Reform becomes necessary to keep people happy. Reforming education in relative terms means changing how students are exposed to information. Educators and policy makers are constantly trying to determine how best to provide this information to students. I think it's fair to say that a policy change that reforms one aspect of education will not create a perfect education system. There is no perfect education system. However, I believe that reforming education is necessary for the advancement of learning in the future. That said, I would like to implement a policy change to address postsecondary education by focusing primarily on K-5 and 9-12 students enrolled in disadvantaged public schools. The policy change I am proposing will phase out high-stakes testing; a form of standardized testing where the results could be harmful to the test taker. This policy change would address issues directly related to high-stakes testing in postsecondary, grades K-12. The policy will reduce inequality among students created by testing. Inaccurate results received from t...... middle of paper ......Freire, Paulo. "The 'banking' concept of education." Handout, English 1011, sec 22. PamelaSwanigan, Instructor.Jane, L. David. “High-Stakes Testing Narrows the Curriculum.” Academic Research PremierMarch. 2011: 78-80. PrintWorks Consulted Finn E. Chester. Education reform in the 1990s. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Print.Fiske, Edward. “The American testing craze.” New York Times. The New York Times Company, April 10. 1988. Network. April 10. 2010.Goldenberg, Claude. Successful school change. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. Print.Kohn, Alfie. The schools our children deserve. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print.McCarthy, Peggy. “Could test scores be used better?” New York Times. The New York Times Company, May 19. 1996. Database. April 10th. 2010. Smith, D. “From the Pennsylvania Gazette.” City Gazette 13 December 1790: VIII. Press